It frequently happens that tense interactions with the in-laws cause problems in marriages. Even well-known people are not immune from this.

Camila Alves, the wife of Matthew McConaughey, spoke candidly about her interactions with her mother-in-law, describing them as ‘tricky.’

With Matthew McConaughey, to whom she has been married since 2012 and has three children, Camila Alves McConaughey revealed that when they

first started dating in 2006, her mother-in-law Mary Kathlene ‘Kay’ McCabe, who is now 91 years old, started ‘testing’ her.

She performed all of these actions before I entered the picture, correct? She truly put me to the test. Really challenging me, she remembered.

She would refer to me by all of Matthew’s ex-girlfriends’ names and begin speaking bad Spanish with me, which I felt was a little demeaning. I mean, a variety of things.

When she retaliated, her MIL at last showed her some respect.

When Camila was ultimately accepted into the family, she recalled the experience. She persuaded her mother-in-law to go with her after

getting a modeling gig in Istanbul with extra bonuses. Kay told anecdotes on the trip that Camila found unsettling.

After her mother-in-law started crying on the third day, Camila realized she had been exaggerating.

Camila made the decision to defend herself at that point: ‘So I just [flipped] it on her and brought my spicy Latin and Brazilian side, and I let her have it.

We had it back and forth, back and forth, so I went back at her. This changed everything and gained her mother-in-law’s esteem.

‘We have the most beautiful friendship, and I have so much respect for her, ever since that day and that night.

It can be challenging at times, but she has so much respect for me, she said. Camilla countered that ‘we always end with a good laugh and a joke.’

The two discussed their close relationship and the struggle they went through to be where they are now in 2020.

During the early stages of Camila and Matthew’s relationship, Kay remarked that the two tenacious and independent people were ‘testing each other.’

The model, however, had a different perspective and said, ‘Well I’ll say more you were testing me.”

Not only Camilla but other family members have occasionally struggled to get along with Kay. Notably, Matthew went for eight years without speaking to his mother.

She frequently let their intimate chats leak to the media, which was the cause of this. He had to set ‘certain boundaries’ with her at some point.

McConaughey always travels with his mother when attending red carpet events. Furthermore, he can’t think of a single day when she went to bed before him or awoke the next morning after him.