MATTHEW McConaughey’s mom wouldn’t let cops cover his dad’s naked body after he died during sex to show off why he was nicknamed “Big Jim.”
Matthew, 50, made the comments on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast from his Austin home in Texas on Thursday, where he was “locked in” with his wife, three kids, and his 88-year-old mom.
Marc was interviewing the Hollywood hunk about his memoir Greenlights, in which he detailed how his dad James had predicted he would die during sex with his wife, Kay.
Just over 40 minutes into the revealing interview, the Wolf of Wall Street actor described how his mom refused to let the paramedic cover up his dad to flaunt his manhood.
“He called the shot. He always told us: ‘Boys, when I go out of this place, I’m going to be making love to your mother,’ and son of a b***h if he did that,” Matthew wryly said after Marc quipped that his dad “went out f***ing.”
The A-lister continued: “There’s other parts of the story that aren’t even in the book. I found out later that when the ambulance came to get him at the house, obviously all the neighbors came out on the street.
“And they came and told me later that my mum, in her negligee nightie that she had woke up in, wouldn’t let the paramedics cover him.
“She kept ripping the sheet off going: ‘Uh-uh, I want the world to see why his nickname was Big Jim, don’t you cover him!’ – looney tunes, man!”
Matthew also noted that he always finds out about someone dying “in the damn kitchen” as he recalled his dad passing away five days into shooting the 1993 movie Dazed and Confused.
Their candid chat about grief came after Marc lost his director girlfriend Lynn Shelton in May, which he has previously discussed on his podcast.
Meanwhile, an excerpt of Matthew’s book which was published by People magazine prompted a slew of headlines when he detailed the night his dad died.
It read: “I got a call from my mom: ‘Your dad died.’ My knees buckled. I couldn’t believe it.
“He was my dad. Nobody or nothing could kill him. Except mom.
“He’d always told me and my brothers, ‘Boys, when I go, I’m gonna be makin’ love to your mother.’
“And that’s what happened. He had a heart attack when he climaxed.”
During his conversation with Marc, Matthew also recalled one “wild rodeo” fight his parents had in front of him at the age of four.
He joked that “neither one of ’em had one iota of a thought” to how it would affect him.
The anecdote prompted Marc to remark that instances like this taught Matthew to “self-parent.”
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Meanwhile, Matthew also opened up about how he was blackmailed into sex at 15 before being molested by a man three years later in his bombshell book.
He revealed: “I was blackmailed into having sex for the first time when I was 15. I was certain I was going to hell for the premarital sex.
“Today, I am merely certain that I hope that’s not the case.”
