Ouch! Matthew McConaughey shares a wince-inducing photo of his bee-stung face

Looks like Matthew McConaughey is smiling through his pain. The actor recently shared a photo of himself smiling on Instagram with his right eye completely swollen shut."Bee swell," he captioned the post. The photo is a headshot with Matthew looking a tad scruffy and part of his face swollen.

The photo will make you wince just imagining the pain that the actor must be going through.

His followers flooded the comments section, with most showing concern for the actor's health, and others poking fun at his condition.

"All eye, all eye, all eye," one follower commented, with another writing, "The bee said ‘there’s a green light,’" referencing the Academy Award-winning actor's memoir, Green Lights.

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"How hard did Woody H hit you, man?" another comment read, referencing actor Woody Harrelson.

Is McConaughey related to Woody Harrelson?

For those coming in late, actor Woody Harrelson and McConaughey have been friends for nearly three decades. During an April 2023 appearance on Kelly Ripa's podcast, "Let's Talk Off Camera," McConaughey hinted that the close bond could be due to more than just friendship.

"You know, where I start and where he ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line," McConaughey told Ripa. "And you see pictures of us and my family thinks a lot of pictures of him are me. His family thinks a lot of pictures of me are him."

McConaughey went on to share that while his family and Harrelson's family were on vacation together, his mom revealed she knew Harrelson's father back in the day. McConaughey added, "'It was a loaded K-N-E-W,'and everyone around knew what she meant by that."

"We went on to unpack what this ‘knew’ meant and did some math and found out that (Harrelson’s) dad was on furlough at the same time that my mom and dad were in their second divorce. Then there’s possible receipts and places out in West Texas where there might have been a gathering, or a meeting, or a ‘knew’ moment."

Harrelson in fact confirmed the theory in a May 2023 interview with Esquire, revealing that when McConaughey was born in 1969, McConaughey's father refused to go to the hospital with his mother, telling her, "That ain't my son."

The actor has been vocal about his desire to have a DNA test done to confirm whether they're related or not. However, he mentioned that McConaughey is reluctant to get one done.

"We want to go and test, but for him, it’s a much more big deal. I mean he feels like he is losing a father," Harrelson said. "But I’m like, no, you’re gaining a different father and a brother."