Ben Affleck and Matt Damon once blew all of their hard-earned money on a party house and a flashy new car.
The then-aspiring actors lived together in Los Angeles and shared a bank account well into their 20s but mistakenly mismanaged their money after their first big break.
Affleck revealed on “The Drew Barrymore Show” Friday that he thought he was “rich for life” when he and Damon sold the rights to their “Good Will Hunting” script for $600,000.
“[I thought], ‘My needs are over. I will never have to work again. I’m rich forever,'” Affleck recalled.
However, after paying their agent a $30,000 fee and coughing up $160,000 in taxes, both men were left with only enough funds to buy a Jeep Cherokee and a $5,000-a-month “party house.”
“We were broke in six months,” Affleck shared.
However, the “Argo” director, 50, doesn’t have any regrets about pooling his money with Damon, 52, because it was ultimately “really valuable” for their friendship.
“We were friends, and we wanted each other to succeed, and we loved each other, so it seemed clear, like, ‘Let’s do this together,'” Affleck said.
Splitting bills was not the only growing pain the duo had to navigate, though.
Affleck revealed earlier this month that Damon had a hard time cleaning up after himself when they resided in the same home.
Affleck shared on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” that he once walked into their shared apartment and found Damon playing video games surrounded by “concentric circles of garbage,” including an old pizza box and leftover sushi containing “maggots.”
The “Martian” star — apparently clueless to the apartment’s state of filth — calmly said to Affleck and his brother, “Hey, what’s going on fellas?”
Affleck concluded that his longtime pal is a “beautiful” and “brilliant” guy, but would “not suggest living with him.”
