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Minnie Driver Shares Advice for 25-Year-Old Self After Matt Damon Split

Minnie Driver looks back on how she handled her 1998 breakup with  ex-boyfriend Matt Damon

Minnie DriverChris Millard/Warner Bros.“Oh my God, my little face!” Driver, 54, said when shown a picture of herself during Damon’s Oscar win for the 1997 filmduring the Thursday, March 14, episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show. Matt Damon and Minnie DriverSteve Granitz Archive 1/WireImageShe continued, “They cut to me because it was a camera right in the face of the poor, young 25-year-old girl who’s about to burst into tears and it was so raw and vulnerable that I commented, “Gosh, I was devastated. Take a look at ex-lovers such as Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake, Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie, and Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon, who have maintained close relationships even after splitting up.

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