Matthew McConaughey Details Terrifying Lufthansa Plane Incident: ‘I’m In Shock’
etcanada.comMatthew McConaughey is opening up about a terrifying experience. In an exclusive sneak peek of the April 12 episode of SiriusXM’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast with Kelly Ripa, the 53-year-old actor gets candid about the Lufthansa flight he and wife Camila Alves were on that unexpectedly dropped 4,000 feet. “It’s suspended disbelief.
I mean, it’s zero gravity,” he explains. “Your red wine and the glass and the plates that your food was on are all suspended, floating, still just in the air.
And to look at it for that long, which wasn’t that long — one, two, three, four [seconds] — and then everything just comes crashing down.” McConaughey calls the experience “a hell of a scare,” noting he felt “a 100 percent feeling” of knowing you “have no way to get control of this situation the moment.” “My tray table is what held me down.
I did not have my seatbelt on, and there was not a seatbelt warning right before it happened,” he recalls, adding that, after the fact, he “immediately reached over, made sure Camila had her seatbelt on.” “[We] held hands just saying, ‘OK, is that it?
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