Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey describes his life as an 18-year-old exchange student in regional Australia as a 'livin' hell' in his plainspoken new memoir. The Academy Award winner, 51, brands his little known experience as 'torturous', ribs a family that hosted him for their 'nonsense' and confesses to going through a 'crisis'. The Dallas Buyers Club star expected to live in paradise, imagining living near Sydney in a land of sun, beaches, surfing and supermodel Elle Macpherson. But his vision of life Down Under didn't match up with reality, according to a lengthy chapter of his new autobiography, Greenlights. In his new memoir, Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey (above) reveals his expectations about Australia as a young man didn't quite match up with reality