Matthew McConaughey, wife Camila explain real reason behind move from Malibu to Texas

Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves, opened up about the Oscar winner’s decision to leave California in 2014 to return to his home state of Texas. They shed light on what the magazine described as McConaughey’s “home field advantage” and what others might call a “Texodus.” “Ritual came back,” the 54-year old said, “whether that was Sunday church, sports, dinner together as a family every night, or staying up after that telling stories in the kitchen, sitting at the island pouring drinks and nibbling while retelling them all in different ways than we told them before.” The Texas native ardently believes in the theory — to the degree that he wants to run studies on it — that the closer we get to the site of our conception, the more “wholly ourselves” we become, hooking a person to their “original essence.” McConaughey appears to be patient zero for testing the theory while living in the middle of the United States. “We were living a happy life in Malibu,” his wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, said in the joint interview. To that, she responded: “You son of a b—.” Despite her initial reaction, Alves McConaughey soon realized she was familiar with physical and cultural landscapes of the state because they echoed her own upbringing in the Minas Gerais countryside, where she grew up saying “Yes, ma’am” and “Yes, sir.” “It takes me right back to how I was raised,” she said, adding, “In Texas, we were going to the church that we like to attend every Sunday. “We lived in Malibu for many years and having the paparazzi outside our door every day — every single day — when that becomes your normal, you don’t realize how much that’s actually affecting the things you do until you actually leave and get out of it,” she told Fox News Digital in 2022.