Overview

• Speaking on The New York Times' The Interview podcast, Witherspoon said she had to "rewire" her brain after leaving the relationship and that the recovery took years.
• She did not identify the former partner, echoing her 2018 account to Oprah of psychological and verbal abuse that she said changed her on a "cellular" level.
• Witherspoon recalled photographers jumping on her car and chasing her family, saying the episodes produced anxiety for her children and left her regretting that period in Los Angeles.
• Becoming a mother at 23 constrained her career choices, as she was warned not to "play a mom" and passed on roles while balancing parenting and work.
• Now parenting her youngest differently, she described herself as "completely wrung-out and tired" after 25 years of raising kids, with multiple outlets reporting she is dating financier Oliver Haarmann.