Real reason why Matthew McConaughey took his family and fled Hollywood


Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila Alves have belatedly revealed that they “fled” Los Angeles in favor of relocating their family to rural Texas when the actor suffered a “family crisis”,

Speaking to the magazineSouthern Livingthe couple opened up about shifting their family ten years ago, in 2014.

“We were living a happy life in Malibu,” reflected Alves, 41.

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Matthew McConaughey with his wife Camila Alves decided to uproot their family to Texas. (Matthew McConaughey/Instagram)

“We had a beautiful house that we’d built together and put a lot of love and care into. We were raising our kids there. I was growing everything in the yard. I had bees making honey.”

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But a family crisis, which may have involved the actor’s mother, Mary Kathleen “Kay” McConaughey, or his brothers, Rooster, 69, and Pat, 62, called him back to his roots.

Once they settled there, Alves noticed how “peaceful” and “energetic” her husband was at home.

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Matthew McConaughey says his kids have become more grounded with the move. (Instagram)

“You want to move here, don’t you?” she recalled asking him. McConaughey, 54, laughed in response and told her: “Let’s do it.”

When they moved they noticed an almost immediate change in the lives of their three children’s, Levi, 15, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11, as sports and church became more common.

“Ritual came back, whether that was Sunday church, sports, dinner together as a family every night, or staying up after that telling stories in the kitchen, sitting at the island pouring drinks and nibbling while retelling them all in different ways than we told. before them,” McConaughey reflected.

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“Time slowed down… The clock was right, the body clock. And part of that is ritual; part of that is just the distance between places and the way people move. But it’s also the hospitality, the courtesy, the common sense. , the lack of drama.”

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