Actor issues statement to Variety amid outrage over interview in which he says he recently ‘retired the f-slur’
Matt Damon has reportedly denied using a well-known homophobic slur “in his personal life”, after being widely criticized for revealing in a recent interview that he “retired” the term after his daughter told him it was unacceptable.The Oscar-winning
Actor had told the Sunday Times that the word “was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application”.
He said his daughter had taken him to task after he used the word in a joke “months ago”. “She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous. I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood,” he said in the interview.