The following article contains mentions of drug use, sexual harassment, and mental health issues.
I was terrified of being separated from them.
“I realized maybe I was looking for my family, for someone I recognized,” she explained.
That tank stuff was some of the hardest stuff I’ve ever had to do in my life.
“I heard people saying, ‘Hey, f***ot.’
They slammed my head into a locker.
I fell to the ground and they started to kick the s*** out of me.
I had to have stitches.
The school kicked me out, not the bullies,” the actor explained.
Thankfully, this bully got her comeuppance many years later, after Ryder had become a big star.
and I said, ‘Do you remember me?
Remember how, in seventh grade, you beat up that kid?’
and she said, ‘Kind of,’ and I said, ‘That was me.
Go f*** yourself!'"
“I went in and I met and they didn’t think I was pretty enough.
I was sort of the weird girl from ‘Beetlejuice.’
It was very fair because on screen I’d only played very weird characters.
But you’re so pretty!’
Ryder was taken aback, to say the least.
As Ryder explained, “To put it in context I’m supposed to be crying.
But Keanu wouldn’t, Anthony wouldn’t.
It just didn’t work.”
Ryder was quick to explain that she and Coppola have since buried the hatchet.
It’s no wonderso many people consider the “John Wick” star to be such a kind person.
But one couple undoubtedly tops the list: Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp.
They first met at a movie premiere in 1989 and began dating a few months later.
Depp later altered his tattoo to say “Wino Forever.”
“I remember looking at myself and saying, ‘This is what I’m doing to myself inside.’
Because I just wasn’t taking care of myself,” she explained.
Manyfamous celebrities have experienced stalkingthroughout their careers.
“I had a few [stalkers],” Winona Ryder revealed (viaThe Cut).
“One was really nice.
He kept showing up as an extra on movies, and you don’t know.
You have to be careful.
So I told the director, because he was kinda creepy.
So he kind of left me for Alyssa Milano,” Ryder remarked.
It’s something you battle with your whole life.”
The actor continued, saying, “I never said a word.
I didn’t release a statement.
I didn’t do anything.
I just waited for it to be over.
The attention was embarrassing.”
“I sort of weirdly rebelled against all that.
Honestly, I didn’t do anything until I was like 28.
I was just not into partying at all,” she toldEsquirein August 2024.
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She moved to San Francisco and worked on a handful of minor projects throughout the aughts.
“There was baggage.
Trying to convince someone to ignore the noise around me was tough.
I saw it in their eyes.
I lost a lot of parts because of that,” Ryder toldEsquirein August 2024.
“There was a period when I was not in season,” she explained.
It was the most degrading time to be a woman."
When they co-starred in “Girl, Interrupted,” Ryder became something of a guide to the up-and-comer.
“Noni has basically been through everything a zillion times over.
Something as simple as dressing classy in pictures, she’ll advise me on it.
… She’s really there for me and my ultimate mentor,” she said.
Tragically, Murphy died under mysterious circumstances in 2009, and the loss weighed heavily on Ryder.
She kills herself in the movie.
I was very close to her before she died" (viaExpress).
And then it happened again in my thirties.
It wasn’t an assault.
But it was incredibly inappropriate."
If you or anyone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, help is available.
