Matthew McConaughey and wife Camila Alves fled from LA to Texas during family crisis
nypost.comSouthern Living feature published Wednesday. They originally made the move in 2014, and Alves — who met McConaughey in a West Hollywood nightclub in 2006 and married him in 2012 — opened up more about it. “We were living a happy life in Malibu,” she said. “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.” The couple have three kids: Levi, 15, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11.According to the outlet, however, even though they had roots in California, they moved to Austin amid a family crisis involving McConaughey’s mother and two brothers, who needed their help.
Matthew’s mother, Mary Kathleen “Kay” McConaughey, and father, James, divorced each other twice, and remarried each other 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 on “Today” in 2019. “We were all jocks. [Matthew] wanted to be a lawyer, until [casting director] Don Phillips saw him in a bar.
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