In a revealing segment on Chelsea Handler‘s podcast Dear Chelsea, the actor and entrepreneur Matthew McConaughey got candid about his self-regard — and how it’s a whole lot lower than you might expect. While celebrities seem to have it all — and admittedly most celebs usually do little to publicly contradict the appearance that they are living “their best life” — it’s not necessarily true.
People deep down understand this, despite the gleam of fame. It’s why people are no longer shocked by the sad and all-too-frequent stories of celebs who seem impervious on the outside but are, it turns out, deeply troubled on the inside, suffering private torment while smiling for the public.
The list of celebrated figures who’ve borne their dark suffering alone while shining on the surface is too long to list — tWitch and Robin Williams spring to mind — and it usually becomes known only too late.
So it’s rare — and refreshing — to hear two very famous, very good-looking, very rich people reveal that when they are alone, they don’t, as McConaughey says, “like the company.”
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— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) April 13, 2023
Handler starts off by saying that for everyone, celebs included, there are two voices in your head. One of them helps you — it’s confident and true. It’s your “real voice… it’s centered… and it will guide you.. you have to trust that,” she says.
The other voice tells you “that you’re not good enough, that you’re not smart enough, that you’re not brave enough.”
When McConaughey chimes in he says the first 20 minutes you sit with yourself, letting those voices battle in your head, “feels like hours.” But “don’t back out, don’t pull the parachute,” he advises, saying “Chelsea’s right, it gets easier and easier.”
But McConaughey admits “when you first do it, you will not like the company. Every time I go off I do not like the company, I can’t stand the dialogue that’s going on in my head.”
Handler then says that you realize after a little time that “you’re the best company.” McConaughey is more realistic, saying the imortant thing you realize is that “you’re the only company you can’t get rid of, so we better try and frickin’ get along.”
