Find out how Jimmy Kimmel saved Matt Damon’s life

Jimmy Kimmel recently opened up about an “untold story” explaining how he saved Matt Damon’s life.

During an interview with Variety that was published on Monday, Kimmel said Damon, 54, and his brother, Kyle, came over to the late-night host’s home to eat pork ribs he made for dinner one night.

“He came late, was very hungry, and started eating fast,” Kimmel recalled. “He started choking on a pork rib. It was stuck in his throat for about an hour and a half.”

He then joked a little about how the situation might appear given a prolonged (but fake) beef between the two stars.

“I said, ‘We have got to get him to the hospital’ because if he dies in my house, I’m going to prison for the rest of my life,” he joked. “I will never be able to explain this as anything other than a murder.”

Instead of getting Damon to the hospital, Kimmel skimmed through YouTube and ultimately discovered that “eating little bits of bread was the way to get that rib to work its way down into his stomach.”

Kimmel said he tried the technique, which ultimately did the trick, noting, “Bread saved him. We tried the Heimlich many times. It was too far down.”

The “beef” between Kimmel and Damon is, of course, a longstanding joke. The fake feud began back in 2005 when Kimmel signed off from “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” with the line, “Apologies to Matt Damon, but we ran out of time,” despite Damon not being a scheduled guest on the late night show at the time.”

“People started to call me and ask like, ‘Hey, what’s your connection to this guy?’ And I’d never met Jimmy,” Damon recounted on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” in 2021. “He literally pulled my name out of thin air one night.”