The Good Will Hunting actor has stated he has never used the slur “in his personal life”, despite revealing he stopped using the slur “a few months ago” in an interview with The Sunday Times. “The word that my daughter calls the ‘f-slur’ for a homosexual’ was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application,” he said. “I made a joke, months ago, and I got a treatise from my daughter.
She left the table.” “I said. ‘Come on, that’s a joke!’ I say it in the movie Stuck on You!’ 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.” On Monday (Aug 2), the 50-year-old offered clarification around the backlash in an interview with The Hollywood