Meg Ryan: “I Didn’t Succeed” at Having a Relationship and a Career
Meg Ryan never got a happy ending like her romantic comedy characters.
“It’s very difficult to be a career person and have a relationship,” she tells Hello magazine. “I didn’t succeed at doing it at all. It’s incredibly hard.
“I think you have to figure out some way of keeping all of those capabilities and requirements in your life in balance,” the 46-year-old adds.
Ryan split from Dennis Quaid, whom she’d been married to for 10 years, after having an affair with Proof of Life co-star Russell Crowe in 2000.
But that relationship soon fizzled.
“I empowered myself by not staying in the thing with Russell,” she said in 2006. “I felt it was going to be repeating some similar patterns that I’d just gotten out of and it was a drag because I was crazy about him.”
Ryan later told Oprah Winfrey that, “Russell wasn’t a homewrecker,” because her relationship with Quaid was already on the outs before she got involved with him.
The actress, who appears in The Women next month, has been lying low.
She adopted daughter Daisy True, 3, from China two years ago. She’s also mother to Jack Henry, 15, from her marriage to Quaid.
