Zellweger: I overheard strangers on the Tube talking about how ‘silly’ I looked
RENEE Zellweger has revealed how she once overheard strangers on a London Tube train talking about her ‘silly’ appearance.
The Oscar-winning actress, who was once the subject of rumours she had had plastic surgery, said the experience was ‘pretty painful’.
Miss Zellweger, 50, recalled the moment she was sat in a carriage next to two women and a man who was talking about celebrities.
She said: ‘‘They were talking about... how Hollywood ladies are so silly, and especially that Renee Zellweger. And,
“How could she do that? Why would she go and have surgery on her face like we wouldn’t know? She doesn’t look like herself, and you can’t just do that where you go and don’t look like yourself”. I thought, Wow, that’s interesting. Anyway, here’s my stop.’
She said the man was ‘still talking about how stupid I am’ when she got up – and he looked up and recognised her. She told US radio station SiriusXM: ‘He said, “Oh God, you’re not, you are! But you look just like yourself!” And I said, “Yeah, it’s funny how that works, isn’t it?”’
Miss Zellweger said she tries to ignore negative comments. ‘It’s only momentarily where you go, “Jeez, wow, that’s pretty painful”. But I don’t live in that.’
Rumours swirled that the Bridget Jones star had had cosmetic surgery in 2014 after she appeared on the red carpet in Hollywood looking drastically different. It led her to issue a statement denying she had altered her face, saying instead she was ‘living a different, happy, more fulfilling life’.
Her revelation came after she received a standing ovation this week at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada for her portrayal of Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland in the biopic Judy.
It is set in 1969 over the chaotic final months of the singer’s life as she battled an addiction to prescription drugs, and Miss Zellweger says she was shocked to learn the details.
‘Every day there were pills,’ she added. ‘Pills to keep her weight down, pills to wake her up, pills to go to sleep. That was eye-opening.’
‘For a moment it’s pretty painful’