Minnie Driver reveals what she would tell her 25-year-old self after Matt Damon ‘heartbreak’

Driver commented on the viral resurfaced video, because she had “never seen” her face and her reaction and was struck by the vulnerability of the clip.

“When they won, and they cut to me, because there was a camera right in the face of the poor young 25 year-old girl who’s about to burst into tears, and it was so raw and vulnerable, that I commented,” she explained.

The “Speechless” star went viral in December 2023 after she addressed why she looked so “sad” seeing her ex win the major award.

“Matt had ended our relationship a few weeks before this, and was at the Oscars with his new gf… I was devastated. Wish I could have celebrated more as it was an amazing moment for all of us, and for this wonderful film ! ❤️,” she commented under the video.

Driver and Damon met while playing love interests in the hit movie and dated from 1997 to 1998.

Their relationship came to an end when Damon declared on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” that he and Driver were just friends and no longer dating.

“I was with Minnie for awhile, but we’re not really romantically involved anymore, we’re just really good friends. I love her dearly,” he told Winfrey at the time.

“I care about her a lot. We care about each other a lot. It wasn’t meant to be and if it wasn’t meant to be then it’s not meant to be.”

Damon later specified that Driver found out about their split from his televised conversation with Winfrey.

Driver also spoke out about Damon’s public declaration and told the Los Angeles Times in July 1997 that it was “fantastically inappropriate.”

“It’s unfortunate that Matt went on ‘Oprah’; it seemed like a good forum for him to announce to the world that we were no longer together, which I found fantastically inappropriate,” she told the outlet.

Since then, Damon kept fairly quiet about his love life until he tied the knot with Luciana Barroso in 2005. The couple share three daughters: Isabella, 17, Gia, 15, and Stella, 13.

Driver also moved on and has been dating filmmaker Addison O’Dea since September 2019.