Mega Ryan feels fortunate she is no longer one of Hollywood’s leading actresses – because she now enjoys an anonymous existence traveling the world.
The Sleepless in Seattle star had long been considered America’s sweetheart until her 2000 fling with Crowe ended her marriage with Dennis Quaid and flung her into the pages of the tabloids.
She insists it was a sobering experience to realise she had fallen from favor – but now enjoys her relative anonymity because it allows her to travel with her children.
She tells FoxNews.com, “I think it’s great being less famous. I blame the fact I had, shall we say, a meeting with Russell Crowe. I had never seen or heard such bad press about me here and it’s been great in a funny kind of way and, you know, a good thing too because I now realize the world does not revolve around me.”
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.
Meg Ryan was so upset by the way America turned on her during her 2000 romance with Proof Of Life co-star Russell Crowe she needed to take a break from Hollywood to recover.
The actress had long been considered America’s sweetheart until the break-up of her marriage to Dennis Quaid and her fling with Crowe turned her into public enemy number one – and she struggled to cope with the backlash.
She tells Parade magazine, “It’s a very big surprise in life when you learn that not everyone is rooting for you. It’s a very scary thing when you figure that out. I never imagined that worrying about what other people think of me would be a big part of my day. But, when you get that much negativity thrown at you, you go, ‘Whew, I’ve got to cope with that.’ Nothing I heard in the press resembled the truth. What an insight for me. I took time off. I wanted to get simple and quiet. I wanted to laugh. I wanted to travel.”
The actress, 46, has gained a hundred pounds in a new movie comedy called ‘My Mom’s Hot Boyfriend.’
But unlike some of Hollywood’s yo-yo dieting actresses, the weight gain is only temporary as the actress’ 18 stone transformation came courtesy of a very convincing fat suit.
Meg’s metamorphosis from girl next door to the porky neighbor took three hours in the make-up trailer each day to create.
She said: ‘I didn’t mind the make-up. I like a character who is all about transformation.”
In the film, Meg eventually sheds the excess pounds and dates Antonio Banderas.
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A New York party to honor late author Hunter S. Thompson attracted a star-studded crowd including Meg Ryan, Jimmy Buffett, and Candace Bergen on Wednesday.
A new movie about the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas writer, entitled Gonzo, was screened at the bash at exclusive New York restaurant the Waverly Inn.
In the documentary, Thompson’s first wife Sondi Wright attacks his 2005 suicide, claiming “this is a time (in American politics) when Hunter Thompson could make a difference in this country”.
But at Wednesday’s party, guests lined up to sing Thompson’s praises. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter told the New York Daily News, “Underneath his craziness, he was a Southern gentleman. he had a courtliness that I totally fell for.”
Ryan added, “I loved the rollercoaster that was his mind.”
I love Meg. Even though her latest movies have sucked for the most part – I’m still a huge fan. I hope that her upcoming movie “The Women” will be good. From the previews – I’m thinking it’s going to be good! (But don’t hold me to it)
