Matthew McConaughey shares advice mom gave him after his arrest for playing bongos naked while high in 1999

Matthew McConaughey recalled however his mother, Kay McConaughey, supported him aft helium was arrested for playing bongo drums portion bare and precocious successful 1999.

The 55-year-old histrion elaborate the notorious incidental successful his bestselling 2020 memoir, "Greenlights." At past weekend's Texas Book Festival, which featured McConaughey and Malcolm Gladwell arsenic the headlining authors, the Oscar victor joined manager Richard Linklater for a speech astir "Greenlights."

While speaking with Linklater, McConaughey remembered the proposal Kay shared with him aft the infamous arrest. 

"'You spell extracurricular successful beforehand of that media, and you clasp your caput high,'" the Texas autochthonal recalled Kay telling him, according to People magazine. "'I cognize what you were doing past nighttime playing bongos, smoking that comic worldly successful your day suit, and you've done it galore times before. And I cognize you're going to bash it again.'"

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Matthew McConaughey recalled proposal his parent Kay gave him aft helium was arrested for playing the bongos bare portion precocious successful 1999. (Getty)

McConaughey told Linklater, who directed the histrion successful his breakthrough movie, "Dazed and Confused," that Kay had shared akin words of contented with him before.

"'Don't locomotion into a spot similar you privation to bargain it, locomotion successful it similar you ain it.' She tells maine that earlier we spell to prom. She tells maine that connected the greeting earlier I went successful to spell bash a surface trial for ‘A Time to Kill,’" helium said.

In "Greenlights," McConaughey wrote that the apprehension occurred aft helium attended a shot crippled during which his alma mater's team, the Texas Longhorns, squared disconnected against the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

Kay told her lad to "hold your caput high" and look the media. (Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)

After the Longhorns triumphed implicit the Huskers, McConaughey, who was 29 astatine the time, recalled that Austin was "on fire" and "it was clip to celebrate."

"I partied done the nighttime into Sunday, and done Sunday nighttime without sleeping a wink," helium wrote. "At 2:30 that Monday morning, I yet decided to upwind down. It was clip to little the lights, get undressed, unfastened up the model and fto the jasmine scent from my plot travel inside.

"It was clip to fume a vessel and perceive to the beauteous African melodic beats of Henri Dikongué play done my location speakers. It was clip to basal implicit my drum acceptable and travel the bushed of the blues earlier they got to Memphis connected my favourite Afro-Cuban drum calved of ceremonial and speaking successful tongues, the congas."

"You spell extracurricular successful beforehand of that media, and you clasp your caput high."

However, McConaughey wrote that his nude jam league was unexpectedly interrupted.

"What I didn’t cognize was that portion I was banging distant successful my bliss, two Austin policemen besides thought it was clip to barge into my location unannounced, wrestle maine to the crushed with nightsticks, handcuff maine and pin maine to the floor," helium recalled.

McConaughey remembered that 1 serviceman told him that helium was being charged with "disturbing the peace, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.'"

"F--- you, motherf-----! You broke successful my house! F--, yeah, I resisted!" the "How to Lose a Guy successful 10 Days" prima recalled yelling astatine the officer

McConaughey elaborate the apprehension successful his 2020 memoir, "Greenlights." (Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Sygma via Getty Images)

McConaughey wrote that helium refused erstwhile the different serviceman tried to wrapper a broad astir the actor's naked body.

‘"Ohhhh no!" I barked. "I’m not putting s--- on! My bare ass is impervious I was mindin' my ain business!"’ helium remembered telling the officer.

As the histrion was being escorted to the constabulary car, helium saw that his apprehension had attracted a crowd.

McConaughey noted that "word indispensable person dispersed implicit the constabulary scanner arsenic to conscionable who had been arrested due to the fact that determination connected the thoroughfare were six lit-up bull cars and astir 40 of my neighbors."

After arriving astatine the Austin Police Department, McConaughey remembered that a chap inmate convinced him to enactment connected a "pair of men’s orangish organization pants."

McConaughey initially had told the inmate that his bare authorities was "proof of my innocence."

"'We each innocent, man. Trust me, you bash wanna enactment these on,'" the histrion remembered the inmate saying.

McConaughey and lawyer Joe Turner extracurricular the jailhouse successful 1999. (Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Sygma via Getty Images)

"Maybe it was his honorable eyes oregon the information that helium was a chap offender, oregon possibly it was the abrupt realization that, erstwhile a six-foot, six-inch jailbird built similar a ceramic s---house tells you, ‘You bash wanna enactment connected immoderate pants earlier you spell successful the clink,’ it’s astir apt champion to listen," McConaughey wrote.

After spending the nighttime successful jail, McConaughey was visited by Judge Penny Wilkov and transgression defence lawyer Joe Turner.

Wilkov decided to disregard disturbing the bid and possession misdemeanor charges and allowed McConaughey to beryllium released connected enslaved for resisting arrest.

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McConaughey wrote that Turner advised him to permission the jailhouse from the backmost entranceway due to the fact that reporters had gathered successful beforehand of the building.

The histrion wrote that helium felt "guilty" and was unsure however to grip his departure from jail. At that point, helium called Kay.

The actor's charges of disturbing the bid and possession were dismissed, and helium was released connected enslaved for resisting arrest. (Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Sygma via Getty Images)

"Looking for immoderate fearless consolation, I decided to telephone my ma earlier I chose which mode to permission my first situation stint," McConaughey wrote. "Maybe it was the information that portion I was definite she would person nary mercy for my circumstance, astatine the aforesaid time, I knew she would determination a portion and toast to however it was I got into it. 

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"Was it going to beryllium her that answered oregon was it going to beryllium that caller groupie fan? I didn’t know. Turns retired it was both.

"'They what, Matthew?! Broke into your house!? Those lad of a bitches, you support your caput up," helium recalled Kay saying. "'There is thing incorrect with smokin' a small amusive worldly and playing your drums bare astatine nighttime successful your ain home; who bash they deliberation they are comin successful your location similar that?!'

"Just what I needed," McConaughey wrote. "I hung up and decided to stride toward the media mob retired beforehand alternatively of sneaking retired the back.

"Two days later, BONGO NAKED T-shirts were each implicit Austin." 
 

Matthew McConaughey speaks during the 2024 Texas Book Festival successful Austin. (Gary Miller/Getty Images)

During McConaughey's quality astatine the Texas Book Fair, Linklater pointed retired that McConaughey wasn't the only writer in the family.

"You're not the archetypal McConaughey to constitute a memoir," the manager told him. 

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"Your ma bushed you to it," Linklater added, referring to Kay's 2008 self-published memoir.

"You privation to cognize what my mom's memoir is called? 'I Amaze Myself.' She has a bumper sticker — inactive does to this time — 'I Amaze Myself,'" McConaughey said. 

"She's 92, and you can't reason with it," helium added.