Last month, we reported that Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey had revealed that he was “molested” by an older man when he was a teenager. Now, he’s revealing why he did not go into much further detail about the abuse he suffered.
“I was blackmailed into having sex for the first time when I was 15. I was certain I was going to hell for the premarital sex. Today, I am merely certain that I hope that’s not the case,” McConaughey wrote in his new memoir “Greenlights.” He added that he was “molested by a man when I was eighteen while knocked unconscious in the back of a van.”
On Friday, McConaughey explained that he did not go into further details because he does not think there is anything constructive about them.
“I feel like those details, unless I had a really good constructive way that I saw it that could be relatable to other people, I felt like those details could have just been grabbed and reported for voyeurism,” the 51-year-old Academy Award-winner said. “They could’ve been the thing that every single show was going to go ‘Read about the details of when Matthew was molested,’ or ‘Read about when he got blackmailed,’ and that’s the wrong headline.”
McConaughey went on to say that he does not see himself as a victim.
“Those two events happened to me at 15 and 18. If they would’ve happened to me younger … maybe I would’ve been more confused,” he explained. “But when they happened to me, it was very clear to me, that they were wrong, that they were not ideal, that they were not how it’s supposed to be.
“So I think having that clarity means that it’s probably why it didn’t stick with me and confuse me later on or left me having a non-realistic view of the way the world is supposed to work,” McConaughey added.
McConaughey also said in his book that despite all of the trauma he has suffered, he simply does not believe he’s a “victim” in life.
“I have a lot of proof that the world is conspiring to make me happy,” he said.
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.
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