The actor revealed his wife, Luciana Barroso, had a brain aneurysm and had surgery a week before the 2024 Oscars.<\/p>\n
Damon said Barroso was still recovering when she made a surprise decision that left him deeply moved.<\/p>\n
MATT DAMON WAS ‘PUSHED TO THE LIMIT’ WHILE FILMING ‘THE ODYSSEY,’ DETAILS GRUELING PHYSICAL DISCOMFORTS<\/a><\/p>\n Matt Damon said his wife, Luciana Barroso, had brain surgery just days before the 2024 Oscars, calling her decision to attend an after-party “heroic.” (Angela Weiss\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n “We had this whole scary thing happen where my wife had a brain aneurysm,” Damon told GQ in a cover interview<\/a> published Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n “She’s totally fine, thank God, but [she] had this brain surgery the week before the Oscars. But it was the first night she felt good enough to get up and had her energy back.”<\/p>\n Despite having surgery just a week earlier, Barroso got dressed up and accompanied her husband to an Oscars after-party, determined not to let another major Hollywood moment pass them by.<\/p>\n “And she surprised me and got a dress, and we went out to the after-party because she remembered that the last time it happened, I didn\u2019t do it,” Damon recalled.<\/p>\n Matt Damon appears on the cover of GQ magazine’s 2026 Men of the Year issue. (Richard Burbridge\/GQ)<\/p>\n “She was like, \u2018This time we\u2019re going out,\u2019” Damon continued. “And it was pretty f—ing heroic of her to do that and really meaningful.”<\/p>\n The emotional reflection comes after Damon looked back on another Oscars night he regretted missing nearly two decades earlier.<\/p>\n In 2007, Martin Scorsese<\/a> won his first best director Oscar for “The Departed,” the crime drama starring Damon. But the actor was nowhere near Hollywood that night.<\/p>\n Damon was shooting second-unit scenes for “The Bourne Ultimatum” in Miami, where he was living with Barroso and their infant daughter at the time.<\/p>\n LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n Matt Damon admitted he regretted missing the 2007 Oscars, when Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed” took home best picture. (Richard Burbridge\/GQ)<\/p>\n The couple watched the ceremony from bed, and Damon revealed he was so caught up in Scorsese’s long-awaited victory he never considered the possibility that the film could win best picture, too.<\/p>\n “And I realized in that moment I hadn’t even considered that that could happen,” he said. “And I turned to Lucy, and I was like, ‘S—, we should be there!'”<\/p>\n MICHAEL J. FOX SAYS GOING PUBLIC WITH PARKINSON’S WAS ‘HELL’ ON WIFE TRACY POLLAN<\/a><\/p>\n “The Departed” won best picture, and Damon said he was flooded with calls from cast members and studio executives wondering why he had missed the celebration, he told GQ.<\/p>\n “I totally blew it,” he admitted.<\/p>\n Matt Damon opened up about life with wife Luciana Barroso, sharing memorable Hollywood moments, family stories and a few surprises along the way. (Richard Burbridge\/GQ)<\/p>\n Years later, Damon got another shot at experiencing an awards season triumph with Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film, “Oppenheimer,” which won best picture at the 2024 Oscars<\/a>.<\/p>\n The actor has long credited his family with helping him navigate Hollywood’s demanding schedule, saying he and Barroso have traditionally maintained a two-week limit on how long he spends away for work.<\/p>\n GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE<\/a><\/p>\n Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso, who married in 2005, share three daughters. The actor has credited his family with helping him balance fatherhood and Hollywood. (Albert L. Ortega\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n That arrangement was tested during the filming of Christopher Nolan’s 2026 blockbuster, “The Odyssey,” when Damon spent 3\u00bd weeks away during the first stretch of production.<\/p>\n “It was a sacrifice for them, and they were awesome about it,” he said of his family’s support.<\/p>\n Damon and Barroso married in a private ceremony in 2005 and have three daughters together: Isabella, 20, Gia, 17, and Stella, 15. Barroso also has a daughter, Alexia, 27, whom Damon helped raise, from a previous relationship.<\/p>\n Damon also praised longtime friend Ben Affleck<\/a> for turning down projects that would have taken him away from his children, noting how their priorities have shifted since the two found success together with “Good Will Hunting.”<\/p>\n “I have no right to expect anything like that to happen again,” Damon said of another career-defining opportunity.<\/p>\n![\"Matt](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/matt-damon-wife.jpg\")
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