Matthew McConaughey Clears Up Hair Transplant Rumor After Battling Baldness

Matthew McConaughey is setting the report straight about rumors he is had a hair transplant, greater than 20 years after he nearly went bald.

The Magic Mike star, 52, had revealed in his memoir, Greenlights, that he shaved off all of his tresses after experiencing vital hair loss within the late Nineteen Nineties.

“How did it develop again? That is an excellent thriller,” the Hollywood actor mentioned in a lately printed interview with LADBible, with whom he shared his haircare routine.

Addressing his hair loss, he went on: “You may return and have a look at issues like The Wedding ceremony Planner [which came out in 2001] and people issues; I imply, you will see, I used to be shedding.

“I bought an image: Flip of the millennium get together in 2000 in Jamaica, I used to be wanting down laughing and there was a baseball-sized bald spot on the highest of my head.”

After being suggested that shaving off his hair and ranging from scratch was the very best wager, the Texas native shed his locks within the hope of reaching extra voluminous regrowth.

Explaining how he went on to realize a lustrous mane, the actor mentioned that it took “guide labor” and lot of dedication.

He mentioned: “I get this topical ointment and I rub it into my scalp, as soon as a day for 10 minutes. […] I used to be absolutely dedicated to it—no Propecia, no nothing, it was simply guide labor.

“All I can inform you is it got here again. I’ve extra hair now than I had in 1999.”

“The identical factor I used to be rubbing it down with I nonetheless do at this time,” McConaughey added of the topical ointment he makes use of. “I am not gonna stop to see if like, ‘Oh, do I have to do it anymore?’ I am not taking that likelihood.”

As soon as McConaughey’s hair regeneration undertaking proved profitable, he then confronted hypothesis that he had undergone a transplant. The actor was later knowledgeable {that a} surgeon had been taking credit score for his purported hair transplant.

The actor recalled how he ran right into a Beverly Hills physician, who instructed him that his identify was introduced up on an annual foundation at a global hair transplant conference. There, the surgeon claimed he had given McConaughey hair plugs.

He mentioned: “[The Beverly Hills doctor] goes, ‘Can I simply have a look at your hair? Can I simply really feel it and see?’

“I mentioned, ‘Yeah man.’ He goes, ‘You do not have transplants.’ I mentioned, ‘That is what I mentioned, in fact I do not.’ He goes, ‘I am unable to wait to bust this man’s nut subsequent yr when he raises his hand.’”

McConaughey added of the surgeon in query: “He is busted, man!”

Throughout an look on Live with Kelly and Ryan again in 2017, the star specified his product of alternative when he mentioned: “I began rubbing my head with these things known as Regenix and rattling if I did not deliver [my hair] again.”