Matt Damon says he has never used homophobic slur in his “personal life”: “I do not use slurs of any kind”

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Matt Damon is making a very… interesting attempt to walk back his comments on homophobia.

Matt Damon is responding to backlash he received over the weekend after he says remarks from an interview were taken out of context. The "Stillwater" actor, 50, clarified an idea that he had only just stopped using the "f-slur" after he was admonished by one of his daughters.

On Monday, Matt Damon tried to address a story he allegedly told a reporter, published in the Sunday Times of London this weekend, which involved the use of a pejorative term for gay people.

Matt Damon, 50, is defending himself after talking about how he stopped using the “f-slur for a homosexual” only months ago in a recent interview. The actor clarified the remarks he made to the U.K’s Sunday Times, which was published over the weekend, in a statement that was obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.

Walking it back. Matt Damon clarified his recent remarks about his use of the “F-slur,” claiming he wasn’t speaking about himself, but rather the culture he was exposed to as a young man.

Matt Damon is insisting that he has never used the “f-slur” following a recent interview in which he was quoted saying he had stopped using the offensive term when his daughter wrote him a “treatise” on “how that word is dangerous.”“During a recent interview, I recalled a discussion I had with my daughter where I attempted to contextualize for her the progress that has been made – though by no means completed – since I was growing up in Boston and, as a child, heard the word ‘f*g’ used on the

Retiring a slur? In a new interview, Matt Damon explained that he recently stopped chose to stop using a derogatory slur after one of his daughters became upset with him.

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Matt Damon revealed that he only recently stopped using what he calls "the f-slur for homosexual" people at the behest of one of his daughters.  The "Stillwater'' actor sat down for an interview with The Sunday Times where he discussed changes in modern masculinity and what that means for him as an actor and public figure. He revealed that he used the slur in front of his daughter mere months ago, prompting her to get offended and leave the room.   "She left the table.

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The Sunday Times that his daughter criticised him for using the term and she subsequently “left the table”.The actor then told her: “Come on, that’s a joke! I say it in the movie Stuck on You!”“I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous.

Matt Damon is no longer using a homophobic slur.

With the changing media landscape, many public figures have had to learn about picking their words carefully. All too easily can a single word be taken out of context and spun into a clickbait headline.

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