Years after reports surfaced that Renée Zellweger surgically altered her face (which she vehemently denies), the actress recalled a moment where she encountered a real-life troll who went after her looks.
In a particularly “painful” moment, 50-year-old Zellweger recalled overhearing a man talking to two women about her while riding the London subway in a recent interview with Jess Cagle in a SiriusXM Town Hall session (via CNN).
“’How could she do that? Why would she go and have surgery on her face like we wouldn’t know?'” Zellweger remembered the man saying. “‘She doesn’t look like herself, and you can’t just do that where you go and don’t look like yourself, because we expect you to look like yourself,’ And I thought, ‘Wow, that’s interesting.'”
She continued, “So I get up and I stand next to the door waiting for it to open and the man is still talking about how stupid I am. And he looked up and he said, ‘Oh God, you’re not — you are! Oh my God, but you look just like yourself!’ And I said, ‘Yeah, it’s funny how that works, isn’t it?’”
Although the moment stung, Zellweger said she was able to move on from the experience.
“It’s only momentarily where you go, ‘Jeez, wow, that’s pretty painful.’ But I don’t live in that,” she said. “It just visits my life here and there and I’m not really privy on that stuff until someone sends it to me. I don’t seek it out.”
She also said that she’s too busy to worry about all the negative things people say about her.
“You know, I have dogs and they have to have shots and they need pills twice a day,” she said. “There’s a lot, you know. I have other things to do.”