Reese Witherspoon is reflecting on leaving a past abusive relationship.

“I was very good at being a professional and showing up and doing the right thing, but I wasn’t emotionally mature when I was young,” Witherspoon, 49, said during a Saturday, September 20, appearance on The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast. “You get into relationships that don’t work for you, and sometimes you don’t even see the dynamics that are happening.”

She added, “When I got out of that, it took me a while to reconstitute myself. My spirit had been diminished because I thought all those awful things that person said about me were true. I had to rewire my brain.”

Witherspoon previously revealed in 2018 that she once left a partner who was allegedly psychologically and verbally abusive. While speaking on

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