With his boyish good looks and easy charm, Matt Damon has been known to melt the hearts of his fans for more or less the entirety of his prolific career in Hollywood.
But a recent appearance by Damon on the New Heights podcast likely resulted in everyone reaching for the tissues.
During an appearance on the podcast, hosted by brothers and football greats Jason and Travis Kelce, the Good Will Hunting Oscar winner shared a tender moment about his proudest accomplishment: being a parent.
Damon is the father of four daughters, 19-year-old Isabella, 17-year-old Gia, 15-year-old Stella, and 25-year-old Alexia, who is his wife Luciana Barroso's daughter from a previous relationship, but whom Damon has raised and referred to as his own.
Jason, the older of the two Kelces, also has four daughters: 6-year-old Wyatt, 4-year-old Elliotte, 2-year-old Bennett, and 9-month-old Finnley.
When parenting advice came up during the podcast, Jason Kelce disclosed that whenever anyone approaches him for parenting advice, he always tells them "don't listen to any advice anybody else gives you".
The younger Kelce, who has yet to become a parent but recently became engaged to music superstar Taylor Swift, chimed in quipping "yeah, you got to figure it out."
Damon, however, shared one piece of parenting advice he once heard that he continues to take to heart.
"An old friend of mine once said when my 19-year-old was probably 18 months, said 'don't blink'."
After declaring, "that sh*t is real," Damon shared how much he appreciated this advice during a recent unexpected, tender moment with his 17-year-old daughter, Gia.
"My daughter broke her collarbone, and this morning, she was getting ready for school, she’s 17."
"She asked me to brush her hair, so I brushed her hair and man…"
"It was a moment.”
The Bourne Identity Star openly expressed how he didn't appreciate how self-sufficient and independent all four of his daughters have become, and how he rather took for granted how quickly they all grew up:
“I hadn’t brushed hair, I don’t know, eight, nine years?"
"You know what I mean?"
Damon then turned to Jason Kelce, pointing out how he's currently at the stage in parenting where his daughters rely on him for just about everything, to which the former Philadelphia Eagles center agreed, declaring "you gotta do all of it."
Damon then brought the conversation back to how he never quite noticed when brushing his daughters' hair stopped being part of his daily routine, bringing it back to that all important advice he was once given:
“I don’t remember when I brushed her hair for the last time, it just kinda happened."
"And then life kinda kept going, and the changes are so incremental that you don’t realize until I ran the hairbrush through her hair and it’s the same, and it buckled me, man."
"So, don’t blink.”
Viewers of this touching moment of the podcast on X (formerly Twitter), were quick to share their heartfelt reactions to the moment, with many sharing similar experiences they had with their children, and others pointing out how they weren't prepared for such a raw, emotional moment on the usually light-hearted podcast:
Without any children of his own yet, the younger Kelce brother couldn't contribute much to this topic of conversation.
However, it's hard not to think that Matt Damon may have given his fiancée more than enough inspiration for a new song?
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