Oscar Winning Actress Reese Witherspoon Blames Divorce For Career Floundering

Academy Award winning Reese Witherspoon opened up about her divorce from Cruel Intentions co-star Ryan Phillippe in a new interview with Charlie Rose, which aired on "60 Minutes" Sunday, December 21
 

Familiar with the “Oscar curse” following successful actresses, who after taking home an Oscar split from their husband, Witherspoon reflected on how far she’s come after her 2007 divorce from Phillippe.

“Phew, that was a tough year that followed,” she told Rose. “I got divorced the next year and I spent a few years just trying to feel better.”

“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 kind of working. It was really clear the audiences weren’t responding to anything I was putting out there.”

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