“We all screw up, for God’s sake,” Gatlin reflects.” “We all have secrets. Gatlin also has encouragement for others who struggle with addiction, like he once did. But now, I truly believe there will be people that will read Greenlights and they are going to thank McConaughey for putting my story in there.” I was able to kick my addictions thanks to my wife and my family and my God and an incredible program of recovery. “You never know when what we read is going to change our lives. “I’m so very grateful to Matthew,” Gatlin says.
Gatlin not only didn’t mind that McConaughey wanted to use his name, he encouraged him to share his own journey. I would be long dead if it hadn’t been for them.” Hopefully, I’ll be there to help somebody sometime like they did for me. And his wife? They both really did save my life. McConaughey’s approach to memoir is the opposite of careful, instead opting for pure candor not surprising from the guy who was arrested while playing the bongos, naked and high on pot.
He was one of the smartest and wisest men. “Coach Royal did not send me to treatment … he took me to treatment,” Gatlin says. Not only did Coach Royal encourage Gatlin to become sober, but he personally took him to a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in California. “He said to me, ‘It’s time you turned the page.'”
“He told me, ‘Larry Wayne, I have never had any trouble turning the page in the book of my life,'” Gatlin says. Royal confronted Gatlin, who immediately had a myriad of reasons why he would be unable to get sober, excuses Royal quickly refuted. We were at this Pro-Am party at this golf tournament, and Coach Royal caught me with white powder on my nose.” For me, he was one of those people that you meet, and you instantly don’t have to explain anything to each other. “I remember the day, it was October something of 1999,” The Gatlin Brothers singer recounts. It was Coach Royal who confronted Gatlin about his drug addiction, and encouraged him to quit. I think this book is not only going to help people get in touch with Matthew, but also get in touch with themselves about being honest.” And in terms of Matthew, I mean, that man is going to shake the world up. And we went on to reminisce, talk about Coach Royal and how much we missed him and how much he had an effect on our lives. “I was on a Zoom with last month and I was like, ‘Put my name in the damn book,'” Gatlin recalls to People.
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It was Gatlin who gave McConaughey permission to use his first name in the book, now ready to speak freely about one of the biggest struggles of his personal and professional life, sharing the story of how University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal inspired Gatlin to get sober more than 20 years ago. 20, 2020, and is available for preorder.Larry Gatlin is opening up about his addiction, and recovery, which was detailed in Matthew McConaughey’s recent Greenlights memoir. Greenlights will be the actor’s “love letter to life.” “Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.” Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. … This is 50 years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. In a statement about the book, McConaughey describes it as “an album, a record, a story of my life so far. That’s when life’s a poem and we start getting what we want and what we need at the same time,” he said.Īre you lit? #GreenlightsBook available now for preorder. When we realize that they all eventually turn green, that’s when they reveal their rhyme. … We don’t like the red and yellow lights because they take up our time. McConaughey said he chose to name his book Greenlights because “it’s a story about how I have and we all can catch more of them in this life we’re living. "He Had a Preternatural Ability to Detect People's Vanities": An Excerpt From Harvey Weinstein Biography 'Hollywood Ending'
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