After 52 days spent alone in the desert without electricity writing his memoir, Matthew McConaughey has a whole backlog of pent-up stories he needs to urgently share with the public, including the revelation that his father passed away mid-intercourse.
As part of his People cover story, the actor also released an exclusive excerpt from his new book Greenlights, that hits shelves October 20, in which he reveals that his dad, James Donald McConaughey, died exactly how he always knew he would. “I got a call from my Mom. ‘Your dad died,’” McConaughey writes. “My knees buckled. I couldn’t believe it. He was my dad. Nobody or nothing could kill him. Except for mom. He’d always told me and my brothers, ‘Boys, when I go, I’m gonna be makin’ love to your mother.’ And that’s what happened. He had a heart attack when he climaxed.”
James and McConaughey’s mother Kay had a contentious on-again, off-again relationship, repeatedly divorcing and marrying each other over the years, but McConaughey says “those moments were so quickly superseded by the love and humanity.” He continued, “They were, at times, violent. As I say in the book, that is how they communicated. They were divorced twice, married three times, I mean, yeah, it was like the Pacific Ocean in a storm.” The actor’s father died in 1992.
In January of this year, McConaughey decided it was time for his mom to once again find love, attempting to set her up with the widowed father of his The Gentleman co-star, Hugh Grant. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the actor said, “His father’s 91, my mother’s 88. Yeah, why not? Next week, they’re supposed to meet, and we probably won’t see them for the rest of the night.”
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