Woody Harrelson requests DNA test to confirm parentage to Matthew McConaughey

Woody Harrelson has spoken out about the doubt that has hung around his friendship with Matthew McConaughey for years, as the two could be biological brothers. Matthew told in an interview that the actors’ families always confuse who is who in a photo and that his mother knew Woody’s father, perhaps in an intimate way.

“Well, I’ll just say there’s some truth to that thought because we talked to Ma’ Mac, Matthew’s real mother, and she told us once… I mean, that’s crazy,” Harrelson said. “A few years ago we were in Greece watching the US team win the World Cup and I mentioned something about regrets. And she said, ‘I knew… your father.’ And it was the ellipses that I found a little troublesome or interesting,” he said, emphasizing the word “knew”.

The actor gave more details to the story that was initially told by Matthew, and explained that the two believe that the evidence suggests a possible involvement between the family members. “In the year of birth [de Matthew]nine months earlier, his mother was on sabbatical from her relationship with his alleged father, Jim,” added Harrelson.

Matthew had said he found receipts and documents from possible encounters between his mother and Woody’s father in Texas at a time when Woody was divorced. To resolve the doubt, Woody says that he tries to convince Matthew to perform a DNA test, but his friend is afraid of the result.

“We want to test [de DNA], but for him it’s much more important,” Harrelson said. “I mean, he feels like he’s losing a father. But I’m like, ‘No, you’re getting a different father and brother’.”