Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves fled Los Angeles amid a family crisis

Famous

By Laura Sarner

It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay.

Matthew McConaughey, 54, and his wife Camila Alves, 41, fled Hollywood and moved to Texas amid a family crisis, they revealed in a new Southern life characteristic published on Wednesday.

They originally made the move in 2014, and Alves, who met McConaughey at a West Hollywood nightclub in 2006 and married him in 2012, spoke more about it.

“We lived a happy life in Malibu,” he said.

“We had a beautiful house that we built together and we put a lot of love and care into it. We were raising our children there. She was growing everything in the garden. He had bees making honey.”

The couple has three children: Levi, 15, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11.

However, according to the outlet, although they had roots in California, they moved to Austin in the middle of a family crisis involving McConaughey’s mother and two brothers, who needed their help.

Matthew’s mother, Mary Kathleen “Kay” McConaughey, and his father, James, were divorced twice and remarried three times. James died while Matthew was filming his 1993 cult hit, “Dazed and Confused.”

“Nobody even thought about (acting) in our family,” Kay said. today in 2019. “We were all athletes. (Matthew) wanted to be a lawyer, until (casting director) Don Phillips saw him in a bar. He said, “I need someone to play Wooderson in this movie, ‘Dazed and Confused.'” And Matthew said, ‘Sure, I’ll do it.’ “

Matthew’s two brothers are Rooster, 69, and Pat, 60, who was adopted.

Matthew’s friend and “True Detective” co-star Woody Harrelson has also previously said that he could be Matthew’s brother.

During an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” star talked about a possible romance his mother, Mary Kathlene McCabehad with Harrelson’s father, Charles, during the time his parents were divorcing.

Harrelson chimed in: “I’ve known Ma’ Mac (Matthew’s mother) for a long time and she says, ‘I knew… your dad.’ And it was the ellipses that I found a little disturbing or interesting. ‘YO knew your father'”. Harrelson added that his hiatus was “full of innuendo.”

After Matthew and Camila temporarily moved to Texas in 2014 amid an unspecified crisis with Matthew’s mother and siblings, Camila told Southern Living that she noticed how “peaceful” and “energetic” Matthew was around her. native state.

“You want to move here, don’t you?” she remembered asking him.

He laughed in response and said, “Let’s do it.”

After they moved with their family, sports became a stronger presence in their children’s lives, as did church.

“Ritual!” Matthew said. “The ritual came back, whether it was Sunday church, sports, having dinner together as a family every night, or staying up after that telling stories in the kitchen, sitting at the island serving drinks and nibbling as we recounted the mall in different ways.” the ones we counted on. them before.”

Another reason for moving to the Lone Star state is that Matthew said he believes “shaking hands full-blown where you were conceived” means being closer to your “essence,” he said.

He was born in 1969 near Fort Davis, TX.

“Time slowed down,” he reflected on life in Texas. “The clock was fine, the biological clock. And part of that is ritual; Part of that is simply the distance between places and the way people move. But it is also hospitality, courtesy, common sense, lack of drama.”

Other celebrities who prefer to raise their families outside of Hollywood include this year’s Oscar favorite, “Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy, 47, who has spoken about his low-key life in Dublin, Ireland, and Chris Hemsworth, 40 years old, who moved his wife. Elsa Pataky, 47, and three children to the city of Byron Bay, Australia, which has a population of less than 10,000.

“We were starting to get a lot of attention in Los Angeles,” Pataky told The Post in 2018. “And when you have kids, it’s more complicated. “We wanted to live in a natural place where children could grow up away from attention.”

Danny McBride, who created and currently stars in HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones,” also moved with his family to Charleston, South Carolina.

In 2019, McBride told The Post: “I had never been to (Charleston, South Carolina) before and we filmed ‘Vice Principals’ there. I fell in love with the city. I came back to Los Angeles and we were like the cast of ‘Lost,’ like, ‘We have to go back to the island!’

“So, we moved there.”