Matthew McConaughey ‘Life’s a rodeo’
His Southern drawl is unmistakeable. “I feel quite free,” Matthew McConaughey tells WHO during a wide-ranging Zoom chat from his home in Austin, Texas. Adding to his ever-growing résumé, McConaughey is now a first-time author, after penning his memoir, Greenlights. Referring to it as a playbook based on his adventures, there’s no topic too taboo or life experience too harsh or embarrassing that he hasn’t revisited.
Having journalled since he was a teen, McConaughey finally worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries – and bought a one-way ticket to the desert to read through them in self-imposed solitary confinement for 52 days.“I thought I’d be ashamed about what I saw and what I read,” he reveals.“And the stuff I thought I’d be embarrassed about, I was still embarrassed but a lot of it I laughed at. I forgave myself and I ended up having the best times of my life with them [diaries]. It was really wild and fun.”
From witnessing his parents’ volatile (and at times violent) relationship to
