During a sit-down with Charlie Rose for CNN’s 60 Minutes, Reese Witherspoon talked about her career highs and lows and how they directly correlated to what was going on in her personal life.
After winning an Oscar in 2005 for portraying June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, she took a few uninspiring roles in films like How Do You Know and This Means War.
The actress and mom of three now admits her “floundering” career was because of her divorce from Ryan Phillippe, father of her two kids Ava, 15, and Deacon.
Now remarried to Jim Toth with a new son; Tennessee, 2, Witherspoon told Rose her brain was like “scrambled eggs” at that time, Us Weekly reports.
"You know, you can't really be very creative when you feel like your brain is scrambled eggs," she said. "I was just kind of floundering career-wise cause I wasn't making things I was passionate about, I was just kinda working. It was really clear the audiences weren't responding to anything I was putting out there."
She said after winning the Oscar, "Phew, that was a tough year that followed. I got divorced the next year and I spent a few years just trying to feel better.”
Witherspoon recalled a piece published by the New Yorker from 2012, which counted her among actors who were “washed up.” She admitted it “hurt my feelings, really hurt my feelings."
Her career is certainly back on track now, with a critically acclaimed role in Wild and the upcoming Inherent Vice.
Witherspoon posted a photo after the interview, writing, “Thank you @charlierose & the @60Minutes team for taking the time to interview me & my fam!! Don't miss it folks!”
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