Minnie Driver’s advice to herself after Matt Damon broke her heart? ‘Celebrate’

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Matt Damon in 1998.

“It’ll be fine,” she said during an appearance on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” Wednesday.

“I wish I could have told her, ‘Honey it’s cool, you can celebrate and life’s gonna be great and beautiful and hard and amazing,'” the 54-year-old added.

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“’You’re going to love again, it’ll be fine.'”

The British star made the remarks after Hudson, 42, showed her a throwback video that depicted the actress looking extremely sad as Damon, 53, and Ben Affleck accepted the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Good Will Hunting” in 1998.

Driver, who had been nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the film, said she wanted “to wrap my arms around that young woman and hug her and go, ‘It’s all going to be fine honey, don’t worry.’”

Driver’s expression in the video, which was reshared by account Movie Shmood in October 2023, didn’t go unnoticed at the time.

“Minnie looks so sad,” one fan said after Driver herself commented “My face 😂😂😂😂❤️.”

“Matt had ended our relationship a few weeks before this and was at the Oscars with his new gf,” the “GoldenEye” actress responded. “I was devastated. Wish I could have celebrated more as it was an amazing moment for all of us, and for this wonderful film!”

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“I think it’s like anyone who’s been heartbroken can understand, it’s like the last thing you want is everybody having a window in on that and it was so public,” the “Beekeeper” star told Hudson Wednesday.

“So when I commented, it was just I saw the clip, I hadn’t seen the clip. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it. I’d never seen my face,” she explained. “The reaction when they won and they cut to me because there was a camera right in the face of the poor young 25-year-old girl, who’s about to burst into tears.”

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In 2022, the Golden Globe nominee revealed she was hounded nonstop by a cameraman who had been told by his bosses to follow her around.

“There’s a guy who’d been sent, the cameraman at the Academy Awards — he’d literally been told to, like, stay on me and, like, he was so in my grill, he was like a wildlife photographer waiting for the kill,” she told Entertainment Tonight.

“He was just waiting for the moment that I was going to break or something was going to happen, or I was going to get up and scream,” the “Cinderella” star added. “He’d been told, ‘Stay on her, bud. Something’s gonna happen.'”

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Driver luckily had her father who kept her grounded during the award show.

“He was just squeezing my hand, and so he was doing what a dad does, which is protecting their kid,” she told the outlet.

“I think this had been established, my dad liked strong medicine and it’s good, he was right,” she said. “It feels like a movie in itself, which it was and it was presented in that way, but now, I look back and it just feels really overly dramatic and kind of funny — brutal, but funny.”  

Driver, who is currently in a relationship with filmmaker Addison O’Dea, said she harbors no ill will toward the “Oppenheimer” star, who married Luciana Barroso in 2005 and later had four daughters.

“I tell that story with love,” she said. “Because that was just a sweet romance that was just a sweet love affair in the center of all of that stuff, but had a combustible ending, which then became the focus.”

“Another thing that my parents taught me, was there just isn’t any time to sit around feeling resentful or angry, just have to get on and everybody had a beautiful life.”