Reese Dishes On Divorce

Reese WitherspoonThere's a subject that Reese Witherspoon has been keeping schtum about.

But now she's taken out the key and and unlocked the lip padlock...

She's spoken out about her divorce last year, to Ryan Phillippe.

Bless Reese, it sounds like she suffered a pretty painful heartache.

She told Elle mag about a panic attack she had about a month after the twosome decided to go their separate ways.

She said: "Right around Christmas time I was sitting in a parking lot and I felt like I just couldn't get out of the car.

"It was like, I can't get out of the car.

"I thought, OK, half of the parking lot has dealt with this. More than half of the parking lot has dealt with this.

Reese and Ryan Phillippe"OK, let's make it a little bigger. Half of this city has dealt with this.

"OK, let's make it a little bigger - half of this country, until I finally got out of the car."

And in true actress stylee she likens the moment to a scene from one of her films: "There's this moment in Walk The Line where June Carter says, 'I was never aware of how much I was seen.'

"I was very aware of how much I was seen.

"It was this moment of self discovery and loss of identity and who was stepping out of the car, you know? Who is that person?"

It ain't just Reese who's putting her two penneth in.

Her mates have piped up too - Andy Tennant, who directed her in Sweet Home Alabama, has noticed a change in her since the split.

He added: "She's a bit more liberated professionally and personally.

"If you're going through stuff in your life, you hope for the best and struggle to keep it together, and when it collapses - after the initial shock - you look around and find out who you are."