Matthew McConaughey and mom Kay went on 8-year ‘hiatus’ after she leaked stories to press

Matthew McConaughey revealed in a new interview that he and his mother, Mary Kathleen “Kay” McConaughey, once drifted apart for nearly a whole decade over issues surrounding his fame.

“We had about an eight-year period where I had to have short conversations with her on our Sunday phone calls because she was sharing a lot of that information,” the “Dallas Buyers Club” star, 55, explained to People in a piece published earlier this week.

“I’d tell her something on Sunday between son and mom, and Tuesday I’d read about it in the news or see it in the local paper. She couldn’t help herself.”

Kay, 93, said of that time period, “We were on a hiatus.”

Matthew shared, though, that after an eight-year break he and his mother became “closer” again because his understanding about the entertainment industry changed.

“I got stable enough with my own position and fame that I was like, ‘You know what? My mom can say whatever the hell she wants,’” he shared. “It’s much more fun now.”

The mother-son duo are now starring alongside Matthew’s own 17-year-old son, Levi, in a new Apple TV+ series called “The Lost Bus,” in which Kay makes her return to acting since 2011’s comedy “Bernie.”

Amid the press tour for their show, more revelations about their family dynamics have surfaced.

While speaking to the Guardian recently, Matthew opened up about Kay’s surprising reaction to her husband, James Donald McConaughey, dying of a heart attack right after they had sex.

The “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” star told the outlet that as the paramedics were escorting his dad to an ambulance on a gurney, his mom was in the driveway and “she pulled the sheet off him.”

He claimed Kay then said, “‘That’s Big Jim. He’s gonna go out how he went. Don’t be trying to cover up how he went out. He’s in his birthday suit, and he’s right there. Don’t be covering that man up!’”

“The Lost Bus,” a series about school bus driver (Matthew) and a teacher who battle to save 22 children from the inferno, premieres on Apple TV+ on Oct. 3.