Ben Affleck: Matt Damon is a disgusting roommate, left food out for weeks

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This post needs some kind of warning. I don’t know what to put so I’m just going to warn against Ew. Ben Affleck was on The Late Late Show promoting Air. James Corden asked about when he, Casey Affleck and Matt Damon shared an apartment in Los Angeles. Although Ben had many lovely things to say about his “best friend” Matt, he would not recommend him as a roommate. The reason? Matt’s a slob. Apparently, Matt was so delinquent in his share of household chores, that Ben and Casey went on strike to get Matt to chip in. After two weeks of letting things go, they walked in to find an oblivious Matt surrounded by trash and food covered in maggots. Again, ew.

They’ve shared a bank account and the silver screen, but one thing Ben Affleck will never share with Matt Damon again is an apartment.

Affleck said that his Good Will Hunting costar was such a messy roommate that it once pushed him and younger brother Casey Affleck to their breaking points when the trio shared an apartment together in Los Angeles.

“Matt’s a beautiful guy. I love him. He’s my best friend. He’s been great to me my whole life. He’s a brilliant guy,” Affleck began on Thursday night’s episode of The Late Late Show. “I would not suggest living with him.

He credited Damon with having the very unique ability to “block things out” entirely, even if, unfortunately, that also included “the idea that, when you finish with something, it has to be washed or thrown away.”

After cleaning up his clutter “for years,” Affleck said that he and Casey couldn’t take it anymore and decided to go on a silent strike to see if Damon would realize the depths of his filth and start tidying up after himself. As Affleck put it, “We’re just gonna wait and see how long he will go before he actually gets up and goes, ‘God, I’m covered in garbage!’”

He said the pair made it “two weeks without touching the apartment” before Damon’s Pigpen-like behavior caused them to snap.

“Came home one day, me and [Casey]. Matt’s there in his shorts and his T-shirt playing the ’92 Sega hockey game in the middle of what was the living room, just surrounded by concentric circles of garbage,” he explained to host James Corden. “Pizza boxes. I look down at this sushi thing that was a week and a half old, and there’s maggots.”

“And we were like, ‘We submit. We submit. You are too good. We cannot beat you,’” he continued. “He just was like, ‘Hey what’s going on fellas?’ [We said,] ‘That’s a rat on you!’”

[From Entertainment Weekly]

Ben ended this segment saying there was a special place in heaven for Matt’s wife Luciana Barroso because of what she likely has to put up with. Please, for the love of Pete, tell me Matt has changed after all these years. I don’t doubt he probably leaves his plates in the sink for someone else to load in the dishwasher or conveniently doesn’t see stuff left on counters but tell me a man hoping to run his own studio does not leave food out anymore. Of course, Matt and Luciana likely pay someone to clean up after him now. My gawd, I cannot with man-children. It is not cute or fun and they should be embarrassed.

Those strikes never work, though. We’ve all had that roommate or dated that person that didn’t do their share for whatever reason. But I’ve never heard of any of them suddenly getting it because the rest of us stopped doing the work. I’ve just walked into a similar scene that Ben did after a week. Only unlike Ben, I ditched that relationship.

And what’s worse is that Ben is telling this story as Chris Messina is sitting next to him on Corden’s couch. Forget Matt, talk about Chris. He’s just better in, like, all ways.

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