He was ”molested” as a teen and ”blackmailed” into losing his virginity aged 15

Matthew McConaughey’s story is not one of neat redemption, but of stubborn survival. As a teenager, he was blackmailed into sex and later molested while unconscious in the back of a van. For years he carried not only the trauma, but a crushing belief that he was damned for what had been done to him. Instead of letting that shame swallow him, he chose to drag it into the light in his memoir, Greenlights, refusing to see himself as a victim even as he names what happened.