In an interview with Elle magazine, Reese Witherspoon comes through as still fragile from her divorce with Ryan Phillippe but upbeat about her relationship with boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal. Photo Credit: Elle MagazineMarch 04, 2009, (Sawf News) - In an interview with Elle magazine, Reese Witherspoon comes through as still fragile from her divorce with Ryan Phillippe but upbeat about her relationship with boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal.
Reese, 32, has been dating her Rendition co-star Jake Gyllenhaal, 28, since her divorce was finalized in October 2007.
"He's fabulous. He really is a fantastic guy," she tells Elle magazine for its cover story.
Reese believes her divorce is something she will have to live with, not get over.
"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," she says. "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, Nothings ever gonna make sense again."
However, she is determined not to play the blame game to reconcile with the pain. "You see a lot of people play this blame game. Blame, blame, blame. 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."
On her reported Type A personality: "I don't think I'm a control freak. I think I'm just fearful. I operate from a lot of fear, like, of things being lost or forgotten or neglected. Losing the spiritual rather than the physical. It's so funny to me that somehow I've been portrayed as a very, like, closed-off or uptight person. I'm very open."
Witherspoon's most recent film, Four Christmases grossed an impressive $143 million worldwide. She was named favorite female movie star for her role in the film at the 35th annual People's Choice Awards on January 7.
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