Reese Witherspoon Looks Back Honestly At Her Arrest in 2013

Actor Reese Witherspoon is indeed a figure that you would always look forward to and adore, isn't it? But Witherspoon did have a chapter that she would not like to remember or reflect upon but she recently did.

One of her biggest mess-ups infamously made headlines in 2013 when the Oscar winner and her husband Jim Toth were arrested in Atlanta after he was pulled over under suspicion of driving while intoxicated.Witherspoon was handcuffed after disobeying an officer's orders to stay inside the vehicle. She ultimately pleaded no contest to the charge of obstruction of a person while Toth pleaded guilty to first offense DUI. 

On May 2, 2013, the same day their pleas were entered, Witherspoon appeared in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, where she owned up to her actions, took full responsibility for her behavior and apologized on national television. "It's just completely unacceptable and we are so sorry and embarrassed and we know better and we shouldn't have done that," she told him at the time. 

Seven years later, the interview came back up while Witherspoon chatted with Jameela Jamil for the newest episode of her I Weigh podcast, during which the host complimented Witherspoon for the way she apologized. "You apologized and shamed yourself in a way that was so f--king refreshing to me," Jamil said. 

Echoing that same honesty from nearly a decade prior, Witherspoon said, "But, I did something really stupid," before Jamil continued to recall the star's thorough apology. 

"It was so embarrassing and dumb," the actress said of her mistake. "But, you know what—turns out I breathe air. I bleed the same way. I make dumb decisions. I make great decisions. I'm just a human being."

Witherspoon was also open about seeking therapy as a teenager and her struggles with anxiety and depression. "My anxiety manifests as depression, so I would get really depressed—it's like my brain is like a hamster on a wheel and it won't come off. And I've been managing it my entire life. My grandma struggled from the same stuff."

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