Esteemed American actor Matthew McConaughey has revealed he went almost a decade without speaking to his mother due to her constantly leaking stories about him to the press.

The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star, 55, has Irish roots and is the son of former kindergarten teacher Mary Kathleen and businessman James Donald McConaughey.

In a new interview, he reflected on how his relationship with his mother, known as Kay, now aged 93, has changed over the years, having once been forced to put themselves on a mother-son ‘hiatus’.

‘I’d say we’re closer now,’ Matthew admitted.

‘We had about an eight-year period where I had to have short conversations with her on our Sunday phone calls because she was sharing a lot of that information.’

The actor, who got his breakthrough in 1993’s Dazed and

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