Larry Gatlin Reveals That He's the Mystery Country Addict Mentioned in Matthew McConaughey's Memoir
The phone rang, and country music legend Larry Gatlin quickly answered. It was his daughter Kristen, who coincidentally had just picked up a copy ofMatthew McConaughey’s critically acclaimedmemoir,Greenlights.And from the mere sound of her voice, Gatlin knew something was up.“She said to me, ‘Dad, you are in Matthew McConaughey’s book … Iknowthat’s you,'” Gatlin, 72, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview.And she was right.Because in thePart Five: Turn the Pageportion of the 2020 memoir, thereisa story from McConaughey’s meticulously kept journals of a man simply referred to as “Larry,” a man who found himself years ago in the struggle of his life with addiction, a man who found himself with few places left to turn, a man desperately looking for help....