Entertainment Matthew McConaughey says he was blackmailed and sexually abused as a teenager in his new book

© Provided by INSIDER Matthew McConaughey wrote about his sexual assault in his new memoir "Greenlights." Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for STXfilms

• In his new memoir "Greenlights," Matthew McConaughey revealed that he was sexually assaulted when he was 18 years old.
• McConaughey wrote that he was "molested by a man when [he] was 18 while knocked unconscious in the back of a van."
• McConaughey also wrote that he was "blackmailed into having sex for the first time" when he was 15, but said that he has "never felt like a victim."
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Matthew McConaughey has said that he was sexually abused when he was a teenager, writing about the experience in his new memoir "Greenlights."

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"I was blackmailed into having sex for the first time when I was 15," McConaughey wrote in an excerpt seen by Page Six. "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."

McConaughey also wrote that he was "molested by a man when [he] was 18 while knocked unconscious in the back of a van."

McConaughey kept details of the ordeal sparse, although he does state that he has "never felt like a victim."

McConaughey wrote: "I have a lot of proof that the world is conspiring to make me happy."

© NBC McConaughey discusses his parents marriage, rom-com money, and philosophies in his memoir. NBC

In the book, released on Tuesday, McConaughey goes through numeral important events in his life that he describes as either red, yellow, or green lights — events that made him stop, pause, or advance.

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Other revelations from the book include the actor saying he once turned down a paycheck of $14.5 million for a rom-com so that he could focus on more serious roles, thus kickstarting the McConaissance that led to him winning an Oscar for "Dallas Buyers Club."

Another was that his father died while having sex with his mother. McConaughey, who described his parents' relationship like "the Pacific Ocean in a storm," wrote that his "knees buckled" when he found out of his dad's death.

McConaughey wrote: "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."

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