Winona Ryder finally opened up about her break-up with Johnny Depp. The golden couple of the 90s met at the ‘Great Balls of Fire!‘ premiere and began dating soon after. They got engaged after a three-year relationship, before calling it quits.
So what went wrong? The actress talked about her breakup, comparing it to the aftermath of her film ‘Girl, Interrupted‘.
Winona Ryder Terms Her Break-Up With Johnny Depp As Her ‘Girl, Interrupted’ Moment
The ‘Stranger Things’ star lookrf back at her highly-publicized relationship with the ‘Edward Scissorhands‘ actor in Harper Bazaar‘s latest issue. “That was my ‘Girl, Interrupted‘ real life,” Ryder said, referencing the 1999 film she starred in and executive produced. The story was about a woman’s stay at a mental institution that was dedicated to helping troubled young women.
Winona Ryder told the outlet she credits “an incredible therapist” for helping her practice self-care by imagining herself as a child. “I remember, I was playing this character who ends up getting tortured in a Chilean prison [in the 1994 film The House of the Spirits],” Ryder explained. “I would look at these fake bruises and cuts on my face [from filming], and I would struggle to see myself as this little girl. ‘Would you be treating this girl like you’re treating yourself?'”
The actress continued, “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.”
Ryder’s Pal Michelle Pfeiffer Supported Her During Her Rough Time
The ‘Little Women‘ star revealed that Michelle Pfeiffer, her ‘The Age of Innocence‘ co-star, supported her during her difficult time. “I remember Michelle being like, ‘This is going to pass,'” Ryder said. “But I couldn’t hear it. I’ve never talked about it. There’s this part of me that’s very private.”
That privacy was fortified when Ryder took a hiatus from Hollywood following her infamous arrest for shoplifting at a Saks Fifth Avenue in 2001. “I definitely retreated,” she said. “I was in San Francisco. But I also wasn’t getting offers. I think it was a very mutual break. It’s so interesting when you look at the early aughts. It was a kind of cruel time. There was a lot of meanness out there… And then I remember coming back to L.A. and it was a rough time. And I didn’t know if that part of my life was over.”
Ryder has called Depp her “first real break up” and “first real heartbreak” in past interviews. Moreover, Depp has suggested that the media frenzy caused the split. “It’s very hard to have a personal life in this town,” he told Los Angeles Times in 1993. “My relationship with Winona, it was my mistake to be as open as we were, but I thought if we were honest it would destroy that curiosity monster. Instead it fed it, gave people license to feel they were part of it.”
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