Jennifer Garner Reveals How Matthew McConaughey Saved Her From ‘Agony’ After Returning to Work Post-Baby

Jennifer Garner recently revealed how Matthew MConaughey saved her from disaster while the two were filming Dallas Buyers Club.

“I hadn’t worked in a long time, and I went back to work for that movie,” Garner, 53, said during an interview for Hits Radio’s My Life in Movies YouTube series in January.

She explained that this was after she’d given birth to her and Ben Affleck’s son, Samuel, and the movie had just 21 days to shoot.

“I was nursing, and we were shooting. It was the first day, and around bedtime for my baby, all of a sudden, my boobs exploded,” the 13 Going on 30 star continued, adding that she was thwarted by the production’s fast-paced schedule.

“I had pumped through a lot of movies, and always there’s like, a 15-minute break, and we’re going to turn the cameras around, and I would say, ‘Great. …I’m going to pump really quickly. … I couldn’t on that film,’” Garner added.

Garner — who also shares Violet, 20, and Seraphina, 17, with Affleck — went on to say that “all of a sudden” she was in “agony” and she was in tears.

“I start crying, and I can’t stop crying. I’m not supposed to be crying. And Matthew said, ‘What is going on with you?’” the mom of three recalled.

When Garner explained that she “needed to pump” but that she didn’t want to “slow anyone down,” McConaughey, 56, stepped up for her.

“He said, ‘Guys, I need a minute.’ And he said, ‘Go and just do what you need to do,” the Alias alum told host Olivia Marks. “And so the rest of that film, every time I needed to pump [he would break].”

Garner couldn’t help but gush over McConaughey’s help.

“He constantly took the heat for me and said, ‘Just go. Just go.’ And let me not have to wean my baby, which, what a gift, right? What a gentleman.”