By Brendan Cole

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Matthew McConaughey has described how he was lucky to survive an abduction when he was teenager.The Oscar-winning actor, 55, referred to the incident in his 2020 book in which he wrote how he had been knocked unconscious and taken to the back of a van and sexually assaulted.In an exclusive interview with British newspaper The Guardian promoting his new book, McConaughey recalled the trauma of the experience, saying that before he managed to escape his attacker, he had “never felt so vulnerable.”What To KnowMcConaughey, whose credits include Dallas Buyers Club, for which he won the Academy Award for best actor in 2014, described in his 2020 memoir Greenlights how he had been knocked unconscious, abducted and sexually assaulted aged 18.When asked about how the experience had shaped him, he told The Guardian that it did crush his innocence, but that he counted himself lucky to get out of the situation “relatively unscathed.”He said that during the “nightmare” experience he had never felt as “helpless” and that “it was defining in ways that I don’t even understand.”He added, “I’ve never felt as helpless as in that moment. I’ve never felt so vulnerable and unable to do anything about it.”The actor said that he had managed to wake up before things could have got worse without specifying how he managed to escape.Trump and the TruthA passage in McConaughey’s new book Poems & Prayers laments “an epidemic of half-cocked logic and illusions being sold as sound conclusions.”When asked if this referred to President Donald Trump, he told The Guardian he had “been around politics and politicians enough to see and hear that the score is not always what they say it is; that they don’t keep the score accurately.”When the newspaper asked if he was concerned about the president’s “disregard for the truth,” McConaughey said he was concerned about that, but that there are many things to question over decades and centuries about what the truth was.He said that Trump was going about things in a different way than other politicians. “You can go back and there are many things to question over decades and centuries about what the truth was,” he said.”Trump’s going about things in a different way than other politicians have. It’s direct,” said McConaughey, “he’s cutting out the middleman.”He also told The Guardian he had considered joining the world of politics. “It’s something I started thinking about six years ago. The reason I’m not diving into it presently is I want to do my best to get three kids out of the house. But I’m fascinated with politics.”