didn’t drive off into the sunset together<\/a>.<\/p>\n“Well, I’m single,” Damon said on\u00a0The Oprah Winfrey Show\u00a0in January 1998. “I was with Minnie for a while, but we’re not really romantically involved anymore. We’re just really good friends, and I love her dearly\u2026.I care about her a lot. We care about each other a lot. It wasn’t meant to be, you know? And if it’s not meant to be, then it’s not meant to be.”<\/p>\n
The pronouncement was a bit too public for Driver’s taste.\u00a0“It’s unfortunate that Matt went on Oprah,” she told the\u00a0LA Times later that year.\u00a0“It seemed like a good forum for him to announce to the world that we were no longer together, which I found fantastically inappropriate.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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