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Matt Damon Reveals How He Helped Ben Affleck Through Addiction Struggles After Divorce

Matt Damon praised for unwavering support during Ben Affleck’s public divorces and struggles, helping them maintain friendship and sanity amid Hollywood pressures.

  • On Monday, January 12, Ben Affleck told Howard Stern that Matt Damon's support has meant a great deal to him during their SiriusXM interview.
  • Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were childhood friends from Boston who rose to fame together after Good Will Hunting, building parallel careers that fostered mutual reliance.
  • Howard Stern pressed Matt Damon about offering help during Ben Affleck's divorces and struggles, and Damon affirmed he was present through all of it.
  • Photographs show Matt Damon with Ben Affleck and Luciana Barroso at dinners, illustrating visible support during Affleck's public divorces, and Damon said he never stopped being there.
  • The pair's long friendship helped them navigate fame, while Jennifer Garner said time enabled healing and forming a strong coparenting partnership with Ben Affleck.
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Matt Damon is "here" for Ben Affleck when he encounters personal difficulties.

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The friendship between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck began long before their first screen success: The indomitable Will Hunting (1997), with which they won two Oscar awards. The actors met as children, in the eighties, at 10 and 8 years respectively. They became friends soon, the two went to the same high school and shared the same two hobbies: basketball and acting. Although incredible, friends were the geeks of the theater at school, and a key mo…

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