Matt Damon is backpedaling on his earlier remarks about the Hollywood reckoning. In December, the actor was roundly mocked on social media when he weighed in on the #MeToo movement, saying that in this “watershed moment,” we should throw some attention to the men who have not been accused of sexual misconduct. He also said that people should acknowledge the “spectrum of behavior” when it comes to sexual misconduct, and commended Louis C.K. for confessing to the accusations against him. “We can work with that,” Damon said. “What the hell else are you supposed to do?”

Now, almost exactly a month later, Damon says he regrets his comments. “I really wish I’d listened a lot more before I weighed in on this,” he told Kathie Lee Gifford on the Today show Tuesday morning. He continued by apologizing outright for his previous remarks.

“I don’t want to further anybody’s pain with anything that I do or say,” he said. “So for that I am really sorry.”

Damon also mentioned the women who have spurred the Time’s Up initiative—stars like Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, and Natalie Portman, to name just a few—which is tackling sexual predators across all industries, not just Hollywood.

“A lot of those women are my dear friends and I love ‘em and respect ‘em and support what they’re doing and wanna be a part of that change and wanna go along for the ride—but I should get in the backseat and close my mouth for a while,” he added with a laugh.

His previous remarks rankled actresses like Alyssa Milano, Minnie Driver, and Evan Rachel Wood, who made their feelings known on Twitter. Driver, Damon’s co-star in Good Will Hunting and former girlfriend, quote-tweeted an article about Damon’s remarks and wrote, “God, God, SERIOUSLY?” Without using Damon’s name, she followed it up with another tweet about how “men with all these opinions about women’s differentiation between sexual misconduct, assault and rape reveal themselves to be utterly tone deaf and as a result, systemically part of the problem.”

Milano shared a thread of tweets highlighting exactly why she disagreed with Damon’s remarks.

Wood kept her response short and simple: “Oh. My. God. Stop talking.”

Seems like Damon heard them loud and clear.