Winona Ryder on split with Johnny Depp: ‘That was my “Girl, Interrupted” real life’
nypost.comRyder, now 50, told Harper’s Bazaar in its July issue of the arrest, which temporarily sunk her career. “I was in San Francisco.
But I also wasn’t getting offers. I think it was a very mutual break.”Prior to that, the doe-eyed brunette’s phone never stopped ringing since she appeared in 1986’s coming-of-age movie “Lucas.” The former ingenue went on to star in a succession of hits including “Beetlejuice,” “Edward Scissorhands” and the seminal ’90s slacker flick “Reality Bites.”But Ryder, who was engaged to Johnny Depp in the early ’90s, struggled under the show-biz microscope.
After the pair broke up in 1993, her life predicted her future art. “That was my ‘Girl, Interrupted‘ real life,” she said of the 1999 film that she produced, where her character has a nervous breakdown and finds herself in a psychiatric facility.
She credits “an incredible therapist” for helping her be kinder to herself. “I just wasn’t taking care of myself,” she said.Michelle Pfieffer, her co-star in 1993’s “The Age of Innocence,” also offered her advice and empathy.“I remember Michelle being like, ‘This is going to pass.’ But I couldn’t hear it,” Ryder said.“I’ve never talked about it.
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