Jimmy Kimmel revealed how a dinner at his house with Matt Damon and Damon’s brother Kyle almost took a turn for the worse.
“Matt Damon was over at my house one night for dinner. I made pork ribs,” the late-night talk show host shared in a Monday interview with Variety. “He came late, was very hungry, and started eating fast.”
Kimmel’s culinary skills satiated Damon’s appetite at the time, but his hunger got the best of him.
“He started choking on a pork rib. It was stuck in his throat for about an hour and a half,” the comedian revealed during what the outlet says was a previously “untold story.”
“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. I will never be able to explain this as anything other than a murder,” he added.
Fortunately, things didn’t go that far. Kimmel and Damon’s brother quickly pivoted to a DIY problem-solving method.
“We did a lot of YouTube-ing and finally concluded that eating little bits of bread was the way to get that rib to work its way down into his stomach — and bread saved him. We tried the Heimlich many times. It was too far down,” Kimmel recalled.
The story comes shortly after another personal revelation from Kimmel, shared on the “The Sarah Silverman Podcast,” this time about his future — and his passport.
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“I did get Italian citizenship,” Kimmel revealed. “I do have that.”
He went on to criticize the current political climate in the U.S., calling it “unbelievable.”
“What’s going on is … as bad as you thought it was gonna be, it’s so much worse. It’s just unbelievable,” he said. “I feel like it’s probably even worse than [Donald Trump] would like it to be.”