Meg Ryan: Women Can’t Have Love & a Hollywood Career

Meg Ryan has said that it is impossible to combine a successful Hollywood career with a long-lasting relationship.

Meg who was married for ten years to fellow actor Dennis Quaid, 54, until she had an affair with costar Russell Crowe during filming of 2000 movie Proof of Life. The actress told Hello! magazine that she found it impossible to maintain a romantic life with the constant demands of her work.

She said: ‘It’s very difficult to be a career person and have a relationship. I didn’t succeed at doing it at all. It’s incredibly hard.’  She added: ‘I think you have to figure out some way of keeping all of those capabilities and requirement in your life in balance.’

She admitted that it was difficult to leave her relationship with Crowe behind after news of the affair became public. She said in 2006: ‘Russell was incredibly gracious to me during a really hard time and in the aftermath.

‘I empowered myself by not staying in the thing with Russell. I felt it was going to be repeating some similar patterns that I’d just gotten out of and it was a drag because I was crazy about him.’ She has insisted that her marriage was no longer working when the costars became involved.  She told the Oprah Winfrey show: ‘Russell wasn’t a homewrecker.  Source

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