As a boy, Matthew McConaughey learned about sex through violence, coercion, and fear, then spent years believing he was spiritually condemned for abuse he never chose. In Greenlights, he doesn’t sensationalize those memories; he reframes them as part of a hard-won philosophy that life still offers “green lights” even after the worst red ones. He insists he has never seen himself as a victim, not because the assaults were minor, but because he refuses to let them define the rest of his story.