Reese Witherspoon admitted that she was humiliated and isolated after her divorce with her former husband Ryan Phillippe as the public knew about the split.
The Four Christmases actress, who is currently dating Jake Gyllenhaal, spent her married life with her ex for seven years and had two children – daughter Ava, 9, and five-year-old son Deacon. However, the couple announced their separation in 2006 with the rumours that Ryan cheated on her with actress Abbie Cornish. He denied the rumours but is currently dating her!
Reese told Elle magazine, “[The split was] very humiliating and very isolating. But, by the way, if it’s not painful, maybe it wasn’t the right decision to marry to begin with. Those are the appropriate emotions.”
“When people get in your face and say, ‘This will pass,’ you think, Are they crazy? 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.”
Reese Witherspoon remains good friends with Ryan for their children’s sake and refuses to play the “blame game” with him, “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.”
She also found it tough to be a mother at young age.
“When I first had Ava, I couldn’t afford [help]. And it was so hard. I was out in Los Angeles, living [away from my family]. I really didn’t have any friends. And I had a baby. No one else who was 22 had a baby. I couldn’t go out.”