Matthew McConaughey confirmed that his mom, Mary Kathleen McCabe, used to call wife Camila Alves’ the wrong name
“My family is big on rites of passage and initiation, and you don’t get into the McConaughey family easily,” McConaughey, 53, said in an interview with
published on Thursday, September 21. “We test you. And even in our own family with my brothers, and mother is one of us.”would sometimes get on their “high horses” over the years, they would all still come together despite razzing one another. “Oh, my family, we humbly wait, we make you cry, and then we pick you up and make your favorite drink, ‘You’re welcome back,’” he recalled. “So there are initiations, rites of passage that my family’s always enjoyed.”Matthew McConaughey is known for playing a charmer on screen, but his wife, Camila Alves, was initially resistant to his moves. The duo first met in 2006 at a bar in Los Angeles where McConaughey was mixing up drinks for his friends.
In August, Alves, 41, opened up about how she and McCabe didn’t see eye to eye when she and McConaughey first started dating. She revealed the matriarch would even“She did all these things when I first came in the picture, right? And she was really testing me. I mean, really testing me,” Alves shared on an episode of” podcast at the time. “She would call me by all of Matthew’s ex-girlfriends’ names, she would start speaking Spanish with me in a very broken way, kind of putting down a bit.
Despite having a rocky beginning at first, Alves and McCabe came to a mutual understanding after a trip to Istanbul brought them closer.“I’m putting her to bed, and I realized, ‘Oh my god, she’s full of s—t,” Alves quipped, laughing. “All she wanted was for me to fight back and then from that day on, that night on, we have the most amazing relationship, and I have so much respect for her. She has so much respect for me.
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