Pakistan, Nov. 14 -- Matt Damon is detailing a harrowing experience. While reflecting on his absence from the 2007 Oscars, the Departed star shared he was looking forward to another chance at celebrating award season after the release of Oppenheimer-until life took an unexpected turn for wife Luciana Barroso.

"We had this whole scary thing happen where my wife had a brain aneurysm," he told GQ in an article published Nov. 5. "She's totally fine, thank God, but had this brain surgery the week before the Oscars. But it was the first night she felt good enough to get up and had her energy back."

In fact, Barroso-who shares kids Isabella, 20, Gia, 17, or Stella, 15, as well as daughter Alexia, 27, from a previous relationship with Damon-wen...