Since the controversy about his use of the pejorative term, Matt has tried to explain his comments further. He said that he was trying to explain to his daughter the social progress that had been made since he was a kid in Boston, where he “heard the word … used on the street before [he] knew what it even referred to.”
When the actor mentioned to his daughter that the slur had even been a part of the dialogue in 2003’s Stuck on You, his daughter “was extremely articulate about the extent to which that word would have been painful to someone in the LGBTQ+ community regardless of how culturally normalized it was.”
It’s unclear which of his daughters he’s referring to in the anecdote. Matt and his wife Luciana Barroso share four girls: Alexia, 22, Isabella, 15, Gia, 12, and Stella, 10.
Matt continued to explain that he was extremely proud of his daughter’s values and clarified that he has “never called anyone ‘f—-t’ in [his] personal life and this conversation with [his] daughter was not a personal awakening.”
He also went on to say, “Given that open hostility against the LGBTQ+ community is still not uncommon, I understand why my statement led many to assume the worst. To be as clear as I can be, I stand with the LGBTQ+ community.”
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