Abbie Cornish and Ryan Phillippe
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Cornish, now 27, and Phillippe, 34, met on the set of the movie Stop-Loss, and today they share a home in Los Angeles – "where it was love that brought me here, not work," she tells W magazine for its September issue. "I think the city feels and looks a little bit different because of that.”
While Witherspoon has publicly called divorce humiliating and isolating, Cornish – whom W says was "cast as the culprit" – looks back on the period when the spotlight first fell on her as "a really difficult time for me."
Suddenly, she said, she was forced to enter a realm of paparazzi and tabloid coverage "that I'd never been exposed to. In a normal successful career, someone usually learns these things bit by bit. For me, it was like night and day. I woke up one day and there was this whole new thing I had to process and deal with."
Since then, she has moved in with Phillippe and spends time with his and Witherspoon's two children: Ava, 9, and Deacon, 5.
As for whether or not she's engaged to Phillippe: "No," she answers. Then, when asked if there are plans for their relationship to head in that direction, Cornish says, "I don't know." Following a tense laugh, she suggests to her interviewer, "I think I'm nearly ready to go on to another part of the conversation."
