Matt Damon denies using homophobic slur ‘in personal life’

Actor issues statement to Variety amid outrage over interview in which he says he recently retired the f-slur'

Matt Damon has reportedly denied using a well-known homophobic slur in his personal life", after being widely criticized for revealing in a recent interview that he retired" the term after his daughter told him it was unacceptable.

The Oscar-winning actor had told the Sunday Times that the word was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application".

He said his daughter had taken him to task after he used the word in a joke months ago". She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous. I said, I retire the f-slur!' I understood," he said in the interview.