Matthew McConaughey’s wife Camila Alves DEBUNKS his stoner persona as she reveals he is ‘actually the opposite’ of a free spirit and ‘doesn’t smoke’

Camila Alves made a rare comment about her husband Matthew McConaughey when she debunked the public perception of him as a free-spirited stoner.

Despite playing a laid-back high school student in Dazed and Confused (1993) and a burnout poet in The Beach Bum (2018), the 53-year-old’s longtime wife, who he married in 2012, mused that he was nothing like seems to most people. of its iconic characters.

“When we first started dating, it was this image of Matthew: get high, laid back, no shirt, whatever,” the Brazilian model, 41, said on Tuesday’s episode of Southern Living’s Biscuits & Jam podcast.

She recalls thinking at the time, “That man doesn’t even smoke. Where does this vision come from?’

The mother-of-three revealed that he is “actually the complete opposite” and “just like” his mother, Mary Kathleen McCabe.

“She’s very organized, very minimalist, very on time, very prepared, and he gets a lot of those traits from her,” Alves continued.

In 2014, she playfully called him out for being different from his characters in some of his most famous romantic comedies, alongside stars like Kate Hudson, Jennifer Lopez, and Sarah Jessica Parker.

“It’s really funny because people see him in a way on screen or off in public, and they feel like he’s so romantic and so passionate,” she said at the time on Inside the Actors Studio. “Just very romantic and he grabs you and kisses you. And sometimes I think, ‘Who is this man? Can you be a little part of that?’

McConaughey was previously romantically linked to Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Renee Zellweger, Patricia Arquette, and Penelope Cruz.

Before he met his wife, the Texan was seen as a bongo-playing and bong-tokening free spirit, who loved to drum naked while stoned on weed.

In 1999, there was a knock on his door when the police responded to a neighbor’s noise complaint. They found him stoned and naked with a bong nearby.

He resisted arrest and was taken to prison for resisting and for possession of marijuana.

The charges were eventually dropped, but he had to pay a $50 fine for disturbing the peace, just a drop in the ocean for the actor who was then earning $4 million per film.

Despite playing a laid-back high school student in Dazed and Confused (1993) and a burnout poet in The Beach Bum (2018), the 53-year-old’s longtime wife, who he married in 2012, mused that he was nothing like seems to most people. of its iconic characters; seen in his role as David Wooderson in Dazed and Confused

“When we first started dating, it was this image of Matthew: getting high, laid back, no shirt, whatever,” the Brazilian model, 41, said on Tuesday’s episode of Southern Living’s Biscuits & Jam podcast; featured in the 2018 movie The Beach Bum

Happy family: Alves and her husband share three children: Levi, 15, Vida, 13, and Livingston, 10 (pictured in 2016)

In his memoir, Greenlights, McConaughey recalls stripping down, opening his windows, and smoking “a bowl” while listening to “Henri Dikongué’s beautiful African melodic beats playing through the speakers of my house.”

What I didn’t know was that while I was throbbing in my bliss, two Austin cops also thought it was time to burst into my house unannounced, wrestle me to the ground with clubs, handcuff me and push me to the ground. ‘ He wrote.

Two days later, he said, “BONGO NAKED T-shirts were all over Austin.”

In 2019, McConaughey also revealed that fellow rapper Snoop Dogg switched his oregano joint for real weed when they filmed The Beach Bum while on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

“It was one of those high points when I didn’t really catch my breath until 5:30pm the next day and go back to work,” he recalls.