Matthew McConaughey has admitted that he had to stop speaking to his own mother almost entirely for eight years for a heartbreaking reason.
Obviously, the Hollywood star didn’t like not talking to his mom, especially not for almost a decade, but it was something he felt he had to do.
In a recent interview, he revealed the reason why.
Kay and Matthew McConaughey didn’t speak for years
The problem was simple - when you have a famous son, or any kids really, you want to talk about them all the time, but sometimes that goes too far.
Eventually, things began to make their way into the press.
For Matthew, that was when he knew that he had to draw a line in the sand.
So, he stepped back from his relationship with his mother, and - although they have since reconciled - it took years for them to sort it out properly.
Of course, there are some other - let's say - bizarre stories about the McConaughey family life, and this is just one of them - from bee attacks to his father's manhood, it's all there.
Speaking about his mom, Kay - whose full name is Mary Kathleen McConaughey - the Dallas Buyers Club star told People: “We had about an eight-year period where I had to have short conversations with her on our Sunday phone calls because she was sharing a lot of that information,
“I’d tell her something on Sunday between son and mom, and Tuesday I’d read about it in the news or see it in the local paper.
“She couldn’t help herself.”
Kay herself has referred to that time as a ‘hiatus’ and it is now thankfully over.
In the end, it took Matthew to realise that it didn’t matter what his mom said.
He continued: “About eight years after that, I got stable enough with my own position and fame that I was like, ‘You know what? My mom can say whatever the hell she wants,
“It’s much more fun now... I’d say we’re closer now.”
McConaughey has some advice for a long and happy marriage
In his new book Poems & Prayers, Matthew offered some advice from his marriage that he believes can help others.
In the form of a poem, he explained that he and his wife of 13 years Camila Alves are happier because they have a smaller bed in their house.
“The best thing you can / do for your / marriage,” the poem reads.
“One way to surely / get ahead, / is get rid of that / king-size mattress, / and sleep in a / queen-size bed.”
Explaining the thinking behind this revelation to Fox News Digital, he said: “We have kids and we go to our friend's house and he has one of these double king-size beds put together and all the kids sleep in the bed.
“The wife's on one side with her side table and the husband's on the other side and it's great when you got all three kids, but all of a sudden the kids get too big,
“They're out of the bed.”
“I wake up one morning … I'm looking over there and Camila's like a football field away man.
“Then you go to bed at night, like you want to snuggle up and … ‘Well, we’ve got to cover you up. Come about 12 feet and I'll come 12 feet.
“You're like, man, this damn king-size bed is not good for the marriage, man. Get rid of that son of a b****.
“So we got a queen size where we're shoulder to shoulder. I'm telling you, it's good for your marriage.”