Matt Damon In Hiding Over Sexual Harassment Disaster

Matt Damon skipped the premiere of his new film "Downsizing" after getting blasted over comments about Hollywood's sickening sexual assault scandals — and insiders say that he's covering for his pal Ben Affleck!

The once-popular star has outraged Hollywood executives by bringing bad publicity to two new movies. He bombed alongside director George Clooney while promoting "Suburbicon," with the stars mocked for claiming they didn't know about the perversions of their longtime producer pal Harvey Weinstein — as Damon even insisted: "Nobody who made movies for him knew.”

More recently, Matt was blasted for trying to defend pervert comic Louis C.K. after The National ENQUIRER reported claims that the powerful showbiz figure had regularly exposed himself to women in the industry. While other people blasted Louis over a self-serving statement, Matt said that the apology left him thinking: “Well, we can work with that.”

Other insiders, however, say that Matt is also refusing to blast pervy Hollywood predators out of respect for his good pal Ben — who was quickly accused of on-set groping after stars like Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow came forward to blast Weinstein. Ben was also blasted by actress Rose McGowan for saying he hadn't know about Weinstein's assaults — as she declared: "You lie!

“No one knows Ben better than Matt,” added an insider about the childhood pals, “The good, the bad and the ugly!” The source revealed that even Jennifer Garner didn't trust Matt during the couple's volatile marriage. “Matt will always defend Ben,” said the spy, “no matter what he’s done!”