Matt Damon has revealed how he supported long-term good friend Ben Affleck when he was going via his divorce from Jennifer Lopez

Matt Damon has recalled how he stepped up for his Hollywood star BFF Ben Affleck when he was going via a really public divorce from Jennifer Lopez. The actors have been associates since starring in Good Will Searching collectively again in 1997 and have supported each other via thick and skinny.

While selling their newest challenge collectively The Rip, the actors sat down and mirrored on their long-term friendship.

When Matt was requested if he was a very good good friend throughout Ben’s divorce and likewise “downside with alcohol”, Matt replied: “Oh yeah, our friendship is not affected by what individuals are saying. I used to be there for all of it.”

To which Ben gratefully responded: “Meaning so much to me, that is type of what an actual good friend is.”

The 53-year-old has had a turbulent life within the public eye – He went via a extremely publicized separation from Jennifer Garner in 2015 and introduced that he had accomplished therapy for alcohol dependancy a second time in 2017. He then was married to Jennifer Lopez from 2022 to 2025.

Nonetheless, he credit Matt with preserving him grounded, he stated: “However getting well-known and profitable sort of collectively, [we had] any individual to show to and go ‘is that this f**ing nuts, or what?’ Or to say ‘what are you doing, man?'”

Matt married his spouse Luciana Barroso again in 2005 and joked that she initially discovered Ben the cuter one.

The Oppenheimer star revealed: “After we had been collectively for in all probability a couple of months, I believe I met her greatest good friend from highschool and it got here out that the 2 of them went to see Good Will Searching collectively and her greatest good friend thought I used to be the lovable one and she or he thought Ben was the very best one, and so she admitted that to me.

“I used to be like, ‘so you bought the fallacious one?'”

Ben interjected and added that he is “by no means obtained that vibe” from her.

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