After uproar, Matt Damon insists he's 'never called anyone' an anti-gay slur

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'I do not use slurs of any kind.'

Matt Damon attends the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in southern France.

In a statement provided Monday to the Los Angeles Times, the Oscar-winning actor clarified that he has "never called anyone" an anti-gay term,— to the Sunday Times that he stopped using "the f-slur for a homosexual" only months ago at his daughter's behest. "I do not use slurs of any kind. I have learned that eradicating prejudice requires active movement toward justice rather than finding passive comfort in imagining myself ‘one of the good guys.’ And given that open hostility against the LGBTQ+ community is still not uncommon, I understand why my statement led many to assume the worst. To be as clear as I can be, I stand with the LGBTQ+ community.

“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—’ used on the street before I knew what it even referred to," Damon said in his latest statement.

 

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