Revisiting Hollywood’s Most Famous Failed Romances – Can You Believe They Dated?
The Good Will Hunting stars also had a real-life relationship, but they didn’t end up together.
“Well, I’m single,” Damon revealed on The Oprah Winfrey Show in January 1998. “I was with Minnie for a while, but we’re not really romantically involved anymore. We’re just really good friends, and I love her dearly….I care about her a lot. We care about each other a lot. It wasn’t meant to be, you know? And if it’s not meant to be, then it’s not meant to be.”
The announcement was too public for Driver’s liking. “It’s unfortunate that Matt went on Oprah,” she told the LA Times later that year. “It seemed like a good forum for him to announce to the world that we were no longer together, which I found fantastically inappropriate.”