The key facts
- Luciana Damon underwent brain surgery due to an aneurysm a week before the 2024 Oscars
- The actor spoke about it two and a half years later in an interview with GQ
- Despite the surgery, his wife joined her husband at the after-party
A family drama before the ceremony
Matt Damon's wife Luciana underwent brain surgery just a week before the 2024 Oscars. The cause was an aneurysm, which the actor first publicly revealed only two and a half years later — in an interview with GQ. People reports this, citing which Life.ru provided the details. Damon did not disclose the details of the surgery, but assured that his wife is now doing well.
Why she still went to the Oscars
According to the actor, Luciana's decision to go to the after-party surprised him: it was the first evening after the surgery when her strength returned. She picked out a dress herself and suggested that her husband go out in public. Behind this gesture, Damon recounted, lay a story from 17 years earlier: in 2007 he missed the awards ceremony because of his work on the third Bourne film and watched the broadcast from home in Miami, where the couple was caring for a small child. Back then, Martin Scorsese's The Departed, in which he appeared, won the Oscar for Best Picture, and the actor realized he should have been in the hall with his colleagues. Luciana remembered his regret, and when Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer was nominated for 13 awards in 2024, she decided that her husband should not miss the chance to celebrate the success again. The film ultimately won seven statuettes, including the prize for Best Picture.
Context
The case in the Damon family recalls the story of actress Emilia Clarke, who, as Life.ru previously reported, also faced a brain aneurysm: she underwent two surgeries — in 2011 and 2013, and the first vessel rupture occurred when she was 24, shortly after filming of Game of Thrones began. Clarke only spoke publicly about what she had been through in 2019 — that is, also years after the event.
