Ex hits Damon view

Driver says star’s stance on sexual abuse part of the problem

ACTRESSES Minnie Driver and Alyssa Milano have blasted Hollywood star Matt Damon over his comments on the sexual misconduct scandal engulfing Hollywood.

Damon (pictured), 47, sparked controversy when he said not all the men who have been accused should be painted with the same brush.

“I do believe that there’s a spectrum of behaviour and we’re going to have to figure, you know, there’s a difference between patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation,” he told ABC News. “Both those behaviours need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated.”

British actor Driver, 47, who once dated Damon, her Good Will Hunting co-star, wrote on Twitter: “God, seriously? Gosh it’s so interesting (profoundly unsurprising) how men with all these opinions about women’s differentiation between sexual misconduct, assault and rape reveal themselves to be utterly tone deaf and as a result, systemically part of the problem.”

Damon had also said: “We live in this culture of outrage and injury, that we’re going to have to correct enough to kind of go, ‘wait a minute, none of us came here perfect’.”

Charmed actor Milano, 44, who instigated the “me too” social media campaign to highlight the widespread nature of sexual assault, also took issue with Damon’s comments.

She said: “It’s the micro that makes the macro. We are in a culture of outrage because the magnitude of rage is, in fact, overtly outrageous. And it is righteous.

“I have been a victim of each component of the sexual assault spectrum of which you speak. They all hurt. And they are all connected to a patriarchy intertwined with normalised, accepted – even welcomed – misogyny.”