Reese Witherspoon shut down online speculation that she and fellow actress Kate Winslet are no longer acquaintances.
“Hey guys, [I] just spoke to my very dear friend, Kate W.,” Witherspoon, 48, wrote via Instagram Story on Saturday, February 1. “We laughed about this stupidity. Please do not believe the internet.”
She added, “We are good friends and have never had any falling-out.”
Earlier this week, online sleuths theorized that Witherspoon and Winslet, 49, had stopped being pals after resurfacing footage from their joint 2007 BAFTAs appearance.
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“This is completely UNTRUE,” Witherspoon added on Saturday. “So silly!”
Witherspoon previously revealed that another famous actress stopped speaking to her after she flubbed an awards ceremony speech.
“It literally haunts me,” the You’re Cordially Invited star told People in an interview published on Thursday, January 30. “So this friend of mine, who I didn’t really know that well but she was a very serious, proper actress, she asked me to give her an award. But I had never been to this award ceremony, so I thought it was, like, a roast. So I got up and I roasted her.”
She added at the time, “I was like, ‘Remember the time we got laser hair removal?’” she recalled. “I’m still embarrassed about it.”
According to Witherspoon, the event was “British, elegant and classy,” and she misinterpreted the occasion. The Hello Sunshine founder did not reveal the name of the event nor which actress was apparently upset by the joke, only stating that they were no longer in touch.
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“We’re not friends anymore. I’m not even kidding — we’re not friends anymore,” Witherspoon said. “I think she doesn’t like me anymore. I thought it was so funny and it was just, I had the wrong audience. It was pretty bad. Yeah. Not even kidding, she doesn’t talk to me anymore. Oh well.”
In addition to Winslet, Witherspoon has a number of close friends who also work in Hollywood, including Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Aniston and Will Farrell, the latter who is her costar in this year’s You’re Cordially Invited. Witherspoon and Farrell, 57, initially met in 2001 when the actress hosted Saturday Night Live.
“He’s just that good,” Witherspoon recalled of Farrell during a January appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
According to Farrell, director Nick Stoller encouraged him to sign onto the Prime Video romantic comedy before Witherspoon was involved.
“We’ve known each other for a long time and have always wanted to work together,” Farrell told host Kelly Clarkson. “He said, ‘I wanna call. I have this idea.’ We get on the phone, he’s like, ‘So, it’s two weddings booked at the same destination on the same date and that’s all I have.’ So, I was like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’”
Witherspoon subsequently agreed to sign onto the film the moment she heard of Farrell’s casting. “I said, ‘I’ll do it,’” she quipped.
