REALLY?

Matt Damon Now Says He’s Never Used the ‘F-Slur’ or Slurs ‘of Any Kind’

Despite saying in an interview that his daughter inspired him to “retire” the slur, Damon claims he never used it in his personal life.

After backlash grew over Matt Damon bizarrely bragging in a Sunday Times interview that he had retired the “f-slur” months ago after a written treatise from his daughter, the actor is now saying he’s never used the word in his “personal life.” In a statement to Variety, Damon talks about a discussion he had with his daughter that he mentioned in the Times interview. Damon says he told his daughter how he grew up hearing the word “f*g” used casually and how it was even featured in one of his movies in 2003. In response, Damon says his daughter explained how harmful the word is to the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of how normalized it was. “I have never called anyone ‘f****t’ in my personal life and this conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening. I do not use slurs of any kind,” Damon said, adding that he can understand why the Times interview led people to assume otherwise. “To be as clear as I can be, I stand with the LGBTQ+ community.”