Winona Ryder: I ‘wasn’t taking care of myself’ after Johnny Depp breakup
nypost.comDepp in 1993, Ryder was in immense “pain,” she revealed in a bombshell interview. “That was my ‘Girl, Interrupted‘ real life,” Ryder, 50, dished to Harper’s Bazaar on Tuesday, comparing her former role as a psychiatric in-patient to her real-life heartbreak.The pair dated for four years, even getting engaged before breaking it off.“I remember Michelle [Pfieffer] being like, ‘This is going to pass.’ But I couldn’t hear it,” Ryder said of her former co-star. “I’ve never talked about it.
There’s this part of me that’s very private. I have such, like, a place in my heart for those days. But for someone younger who grew up with social media, it’s hard to describe.”The “Stranger Things” star said she was eventually able to heal with the help of an “incredible therapist” and some self-motivation.She recalled a time when she was playing a tortured character in “The House of Spirits” and would ask herself if she would treat this girl – her character – the same way she was treating herself.“I would look at these fake bruises and cuts on my face [from the shoot], and I would struggle to see myself as this little girl. ‘Would you be treating this girl like you’re treating yourself?’” she said. “I remember looking at myself and saying, ‘This is what I’m doing to myself inside.’ Because I just wasn’t taking care of myself.”But the tipping point really came when she was arrested for shoplifting in 2001 in Beverly Hills, at which time Ryder “definitely retreated,” she said.“It’s so interesting when you look at the early aughts.
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