Matt Damon's God deal

Aug 11, 2007, 7:00 GMT

Matt Damon says God took his Oscar award away from him.

The actor - who won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for 'Good Will Hunting' - claims he made a deal with God during his wife Luciana's difficult labour last year, but wasn't prepared for the consequences.

Matt explained in an interview with Britain's OK! magazine: "I kept my Oscar at my apartment in New York, but then my apartment was flooded. A sprinkler broke while were out of town. It was really weird. It was about two weeks after my daughter Isabella was born and I'm sure it was like one of those deals you make with God. When Luciana was in Labour, I said, 'Please take everything in the world away from me, but please don't take my wife or daughter.'

"Two weeks later I got a phone call and they said, 'I'm in your apartment! Everything you have in the world is gone!'

"I was holding my daughter and I said, 'OK, don't worry about it.' I'm sure on some level there was some kind of cosmic deal I made for it."

Matt recently admitted his 13-month-old daughter is the most important person in his life.

The 36-year-old star insists his priorities changed dramatically when he became a father.

He said: "Everybody said before she was born, 'It's going to change your life.'

"But the reality is, the moment a baby enters your world, every other single thing in life drops down a peg. It's all less important."

Matt is currently starring in new movie 'The Bourne Ultimatum', in which he reprises his role as former CIA assassin Jason Bourne.

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