Robert Downey Jr. reveals intimate moment with wife Susan that 'felt like their wedding night' during Oscars ceremony following his Best Supporting Actor win

Robert Downey Jr. shared an intimate moment with his wife Susan Downey after winning big at the 2024 Oscars ceremony on Sunday.

The actor, 58, took home his first Academy Award with the Best Supporting Actor gong for his portrayal of Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.

‘We just said, let’s just check in [with each other] tonight, because it was like, you know what this feels like? It’s like our wedding night,’ he told People.

He went on to describe the moment, affectionately labeling it the ‘best part of the night,’ and noted that it occurred during a commercial break.

‘We just touched heads, like two dinosaurs that were letting each other know that we we were a couple,’ he explained. ‘And it was great.’

Robert Downey Jr . shared an intimate moment with his wife Susan Downey after winning big at the 2024 Oscars ceremony on Sunday

He said that the ‘best part of the night’ for the couple happened during a commercial break

The veteran actor – who has acted for over five decades – took home the Academy Award over stiff competition including Sterling K. Brown in American Fiction, Robert De Niro for Killers of the Flower Moon, Ryan Gosling in Barbie, and Mark Ruffalo for Poor Things.

The actor secured two Oscar nominations in the past: one for his lead role in 1992’s Chaplin and another for his supporting performance in 2008’s Tropic Thunder.

Robert alluded to his ‘terrible childhood’ during his Oscars acceptance speech after host Jimmy Kimmel made a very awkward quip about his drug use.

Standing at the podium, with trophy in hand, Downey Jr joked: ‘I’d like to thank my terrible childhood and the Academy – in that order.’

He also praised wife Susan for ‘loving him back to life’ having previously credited her for helping him quit drugs for good.

Earlier in the night, host Kimmel had roasted Downey Jr’s manhood and past drug use in his bombshell opening monologue.

The host, 56, returning for the fourth time, had left the A-lister audience grinning and cringing in equal measure.

Of the Iron Man star, Kimmel said: ‘And Robert Downey Jr, one of the highest points of his career. But Robert has been’ – as RDJ pointed at his face, leading Kimmel to add: ‘Was that too on the nose or a drug motion you made?

‘We just said, let’s just check in [with each other] tonight, because it was like, you know what this feels like? It’s like our wedding night,’ he told People

‘We just touched heads, like two dinosaurs that were letting each other know that we we were a couple,’ he explained. ‘And it was great’

The actor took home his first Academy Award with the Best Supporting Actor gong for his portrayal of Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer

‘But look at him, he’s so handsome, so talented, he’s won every award there is to win.

‘Is that an acceptance speech in your pocket or do you just have a very rectangular penis?’

The joke fell flat as RDJ looked somber while staring at the camera while fans slammed Kimmel for his ‘bottom of the barrel’ jokes about substance abuse.

But Downey Jr has never been one to shy away from acknowledging his checkered past.

His father first introduced him to drugs at the tender age of just six years old which set him on a chaotic path that destroyed relationships and ultimately landed him in jail.

In his 2022 Netflix documentary, titled Sr, RDJ said he ‘grew up in a family where everyone was doing drugs.’

Telling a judge about his addiction to cocaine and heroin in 1999, he said it was ‘like I have a shotgun in my mouth, and I’ve got my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal.’

Downey Jr married model Deborah Falconer in 1992 and they had son Indio but his drug usage and chaotic behavior only increased.

Finally, in 2003, he met producer Susan Levin on a film set. She told him she would marry him only if he promised to quit drugs for good

On Aug. 27, 2005, nearly two years after getting engaged, Susan and Robert tied the knot

They welcomed son Exton Elias Downey on February 7, 2012 and daughter Avri Roel Downey on November 4, 2014

Robert also shares son, Indio from his first marriage to Deborah

In 1996, the star was arrested for speeding while drunk and possessing heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine and an unloaded gun.

The following month, while awaiting trial, his neighbors called the police after discovering Downey Jr had wandered into their home in a druggy haze and passed out on their 11-year-old son’s bed.

The same year, his wife finally gave up on his drug-bingeing and left him.

He repeatedly skipped court-ordered drug tests and was in and out of jail — twice waking in a pool of his own blood after other inmates attacked him — before a judge finally lost patience with the star and jailed him for three years in 1999.

Even after getting out in 2000 and winning a Golden Globe for his performance as Calista Flockhart’s boyfriend in TV legal drama Ally McBeal, he continued to get into trouble.

Finally, in 2003, he met producer Susan Levin on a film set. She told him she would marry him only if he promised to quit drugs for good.

On Aug. 27, 2005, nearly two years after getting engaged, Susan and Robert tied the knot.

They welcomed son Exton Elias Downey on February 7, 2012 and daughter Avri Roel Downey on November 4, 2014.

Robert also shares son, Indio from his first marriage to Deborah.