Matt Damon Nearly Chokes to Death During Dinner at Jimmy Kimmel’s House
Jimmy Kimmel may have a longstanding satirical feud with Matt Damon, but the late night host quickly sprang into action to save the actor’s life.
“Matt Damon was over at my house one night for dinner. I made pork ribs,” Kimmel told Variety on Monday, August 18. “He came late, was very hungry and started eating fast. He started choking on a pork rib. It was stuck in his throat for about an hour and a half. His brother was there.”
He continued, “I said, ‘We have got to get him to the hospital,’ because if he dies in my house, I’m going to prison for the rest of my life. I will never be able to explain this as anything other than a murder.”
Kimmel said that he started frantically searching for methods to help Damon remove the piece of food from his throat.
“We did a lot of YouTube-ing and finally concluded that eating little bits of bread was the way to get that rib to work its way down into his stomach – and bread saved him,” Kimmel said. “We tried the Heimlich many times. It was too far down.”
