Reese Witherspoon Dishes About Her Divorce
Reese Witherspoon’s recently dished about the extreme low she went through during her painful divorce to Ryan Phillippe.
“When people get in your face and say, ‘This will pass,’ you think: Are they crazy?” Witherspooon tells the April issue of Elle. “I’m never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing’s ever gonna make sense again. And I still have moments where I’m like, ‘Nothing’s ever gonna make sense again.’ “
She says her 2006 divorce was “very humiliating and very isolating”, but also acknowledges that if it wasn’t painful than she probably should not have married.
“If it’s not painful, maybe it wasn’t the right decision to marry to begin with,” Witherspoon said. “Those are the appropriate emotions.”
She said that her and Philippe did their share of playing the blame game!
“Blame, blame, blame,” she says. “You know? And it’s a really easy thing to do, and I’m certainly guilty of it. [You have to] look at yourself and go: ‘What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility?’ And that’s the painful work that you have to go through to hopefully get some real-life knowledge out of it.”
Even though Witherspoon went through a major low with her divorce, she sure seems to have found happiness with Jake Gyllenhaal
“He’s fabulous,” she says. “He really is a fantastic guy.”
We’re glad that the pain of her divorce was ultimately worth it for her!