On February 26, Matthew McConaughey sat down with LADbible for an interview about his memoir, “Greenlights.” The interview veered toward one section of his book in which McConaughey addressed his premature hair loss and how he was able to grow his hair back. McConaughey started losing his hair back in the 1990s. By the time his 30th birthday rolled around, he was consistently shaving his entire head to hide the patchy look of his thinning scalp — that was until he discovered the magic solution. “I get this topical ointment and I rub it into my scalp, once a day for 10 minutes,” he stated. The ointment allowed his hair to regrow completely, and he is proud to say he has “more hair now than I had in 1999.”
Following the miraculous scalp regrowth, the “Dallas Buyers Club” star discovered that a surgeon was spreading a lie at an annual international hair transplant convention, claiming that he had given McConaughey a hair transplant. McConaughey was able to debunk this lie after running into a Beverly Hills doctor, who examined the actor’s scalp and confirmed that there were no signs of a transplant.
Despite McConaughey’s claims, not everyone is convinced. Dr. Yetkin Bayer of Dr. Bayer Clinics has expressed doubts that an ointment or medication could resolve the issue. According to the specialist, the “Interstellar” actor’s scalp showed signs of hair follicle death, which would have ruled out any possibility of regrowth without a hair transplant.
