{"id":954588,"date":"2026-11-06T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/954588\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:54:14","slug":"matt-damon-reveals-wife-suffered-brain-aneurysm-and-had-surgery-the-night-of-the-2024-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/954588\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon reveals wife suffered brain aneurysm and had surgery the night of the 2024 Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Damon has shared the frightening truth behind why he skipped the 2024 Oscars, revealing his wife suffered from a brain aneurysm and had surgery the week before Hollywood\u2019s night of nights.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old American actor opened up about his wife Luciana Barroso\u2019s health scare on the night his film Oppenheimer won seven awards in an interview with GQ.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had this whole scary thing happen where my wife had a brain aneurysm,\u201d Damon told the publication on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Damon said his wife took him by surprise after suggesting they attend the Vanity Fair after-party to celebrate the film\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was like, \u2018This time we\u2019re going out,\u2019\u201d Damon continued. \u201cAnd it was pretty f…ing heroic of her to do that and really meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MattCamera IconMatt Damon and wife Luciana. Credit: BANG – Entertainment News<\/p>\n

It comes after Damon reflected on another Oscars night he regretted missing nearly two decades earlier.<\/p>\n

In 2007, Martin Scorsese won his first Best Director Oscar for The Departed, the crime drama starring Damon \u2014 but he was nowhere near Hollywood that night.<\/p>\n

Instead, Damon was filming scenes for The Bourne Ultimatum in Miami, where he was living with Barroso and their daughter at the time.<\/p>\n

The couple watched the ceremony from bed and did not expect that The Departed was in the running to win Best Picture as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I realised in that moment I hadn\u2019t even considered that that could happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I turned to Lucy, and I was like, \u2018S..t, we should be there!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MattCamera IconMatt Damon and his family. Credit: BANG – Entertainment News<\/p>\n

Damon said he was inundated with calls from cast members and studio executives wondering why he had missed the celebration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI totally blew it,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n

Damon and Barroso married in a private ceremony in 2005 and have three daughters together: Isabella, 20, Gia, 17, and Stella, 15.<\/p>\n

Barroso also has a daughter, Alexia, 27, whom Damon helped raise, from a previous relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Damon has shared the frightening truth behind why he skipped the 2024 Oscars, revealing his wife suffered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,4794,1625,344],"class_list":["post-954588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-health-fitness","tag-lifestyle","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}