Matthew McConaughey recently recalled a painful memory where he was lucky to escape with his life.
In his 2020 book “Greenlights,” the Oscar-winning actor revealed that when he was 18, he was knocked unconscious and dragged to the back of a van where he was sexually assaulted by a man.
In a new interview with The Guardian, McConaughey, 55, explained how, in that moment, he never felt so helpless, saying, “I’ve never felt so vulnerable and unable to do anything about it.”
Fortunately, the “Interstellar” and “Dallas Buyers Club” star woke up and managed to escape the dire situation “right before it could have been worse,” he said. “Talk about divine intervention. I got out relatively unscathed. It could have been worse is what I’m saying.”
The Hollywood star added that escaping the hellish ordeal was defining in ways he still hasn’t come to understand ‘till this day.
“Did it crush some innocence of mine? That my nice guy, young Matthew, believed in the innocence of the world and no one would try to do harm to me or anyone else unless I provoked it? Sure,” he detailed.
He was fortunate enough to forge on and shot to stardom after appearing in the courtroom drama “A Time to Kill” in 1996. He then became one of the most coveted leading stars in romantic comedies of the 2000s.
He also starred in “The Wedding Planner” (2001) opposite Jennifer Lopez, “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” (2003), which he starred in alongside Kate Hudson, and “Failure to Launch” (2006) with Sarah Jessica Parker.
At another point during the interview, McConaughey said he doesn’t know what to believe anymore anymore where politics are concerned. He also admitted that President Trump’s disregard for the truth is cause for concern.
“I’ve been around politics and politicians enough to see and hear that the score is not always what they say it is; that they don’t keep the score accurately,” he said.
“But that’s nothing new, either,” he continued. “You can go back and there are many things to question over decades and centuries about what the truth was. Trump’s going about things in a different way than other politicians have. It’s direct. He’s cutting out the middle man.”
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