Matt Damon has spoken for the first time about rumours that he and Ben Affleck were once gay lovers.
In a candid interview Matt, 42, confronts the allegations head on and explains that they are untrue.
The actor says that he simply didn’t want to offend anyone by quashing talk of romance so he just ignored the claims.
He said: “I never denied those rumours because I didn’t want to offend my friends who were gay…as if being gay were some kind of disease.
“It put me in a weird position in that sense. The whole thing was just gross.”
Matt ,who has three daughters and a stepdaughter with wife Luciana Barroso,has just finished working on a project which saw him playing Liberace’s young lover Scott Thorson.
In Behind The Candelabra Matt and Michael Douglas, who stars as the flamboyant pianist, are seen getting intimate in several scenes.
Matt said: “We both have a lot of gay friends and we were not going to screw this up or bullshit it.
“It wasn’t the most natural thing in the world to do, though. Like, for one scene, I had to come out of a pool, go over to Michael, straddle him on a chaise longue and start kissing him.
“And throughout the script, it’s not like I kiss him just once. We drew it up like a football plan.”
by Lorelle Heath
