The 47-year-old Hollywood actress - who split from husband of 12 years Jim Toth in March - revealed on Saturday at her Hello Sunshine media company's event that she threw herself into work.
Reese Witherspoon 'cried and cried' after realizing she felt like a 'broken robot' and 'wasn't taking care' of herself following a difficult year.
Getting the truth out: Reese Witherspoon 'cried and cried' after realizing she felt like a 'broken robot' and 'wasn't taking care' of herself following a difficult year.
She added: 'I feel like I've learned a lot because I did the work – the hard work – in my early 20s, and reading every book and every self-help book and going to therapy and really trying to understand myself and forgive the parts of myself that were broken and the parts of myself where I felt like a failure, because it was a huge part of it.'
'I will put in the hours. And I bet on myself. I'm my own lottery ticket and I always think that. If no one else shows up, I know I will show up, and I know I will do the work.
'People like to see me do light movies, and I was like:"OK. It doesn't put you in the cool kids club a lot but I don't care, I don't want to be in the cool kids club'.
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