Minnie Driver claims her’sweet relationship’ with Matt Damon ended badly

Minnie Driver, a British-American actress, remembered her brief affair with Matt Damon, which ended with the actor proclaiming his single status on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

In her latest memoir, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays, the Return To Me actress, 52, addressed her ascent to prominence over 25 years ago and her romance with her Good Will Hunting co-star Matt Damon.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Driver recounted the attention that surrounded her and Damon’s relationship when the two began dating following their roles as lovers in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting.

“That was just a nice romance, just a sweet love story in the middle of all of that,” she added, “but it had an explosive finale, which then became the emphasis.”

Damon and Driver divorced in 1998, and Damon revealed the news on The Oprah Winfrey Show in January of that year.

Her family ‘loved Matt,’ she added, but they ‘could see that this young man was rocketing incredibly rapidly, and so was I.’