Anne Hathaway has been through quite a year. Her ex Raffaello Follieri has been swarmed by scandal and legal troubles. The split actually occurred amidst rumors that Follieri was involved in a money laundering scheme, and speculation naturally lead to Anne (the couple had been together 4 years.)
Not even one month ago, Follieri was arrested for allegedly scamming his investors by falsely claiming ties to the Vatican and placed in prison with a $21 million bail. Follieri pleaded guilty today to 14 criminal counts against him for fraud and money laundering. “I know what I did was wrong,” he said.
Hathaway - a Disney sweetheart, made famous by the book-turned-movie, "The Princess Diaries," is clearly realing from the potential blow to her image. What's more, she is now left to find a place to live and field reporters desperate for details.
In a most recent encounter at the Get Smart premier, Anne was bombarded by questions. "It's a situation where the rug was pulled out from under me all of a sudden," she says. "But just as suddenly, my friends threw another rug back under me. One said, 'Go stay at my house.' And Steve Carell stepped up for me during an interview when someone asked a question [about the criminal investigation]. He said, 'At some point you're going to have to talk about this time in your life. You don't have to do it this week. I'll take care of anything that comes your way.'"
Reflected Hathaway, wiping away a tear, "I've been shown such kindness. Not everyone gets that. A lot of people go through tough times alone."
On showing up for the W mag interview at all: “Right now I don’t have the wherewithal to be anything except professional. As soon as I found out about the arrest, I had to get on a plane to Mexico to do a press tour for Get Smart. And then I spent a week in shock at a friend’s house. And then I had to go back and do more press, and I haven’t stopped since. At different stages of my life, I’ve felt I’ve been two ages simultaneously. I’d be a professional working adult and also a typical 13-year-old. Right now I have the distinct feeling that I’m two ages again, and the older part of me that I relied on many times in the past in difficult moments, that’s the part that got me here today. That’s the part that says, ‘You do your job, you keep your head up.’”
On her time filming The Princess Diaries 2 at age 21: “I was not the most fun girl to be around. It was a very young moment for me. God love the patient, wonderful [director] Garry Marshall.” (Marshall adds, “She was great in the first picture, when she didn’t know much of anything, but in the second picture, she was an expert. That often happens. She wanted to play something different by then; she didn’t want to keep the tiara on. I remember at a junket,” he adds, laughing, “she was talking Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and Disney was getting nervous, and I said, ‘Annie, why don’t you talk about your hair a little; we’ll talk Nietzsche later.’ But that’s why I love Annie! When you look in her eyes, somebody’s always home, which is rare.”
As W goes on to explain, "Hathaway is the first to admit that her intensity can be paralyzing." Hathaway laughs, “Emily Blunt kind of changed my approach to acting,” she says of her Prada costar, who has become a close friend. “She just f---ing got on with it. She’d just jump off the diving board. I’d stop, look at the water and then jump. And suddenly I just thought, Why, her way looks so much more fun.”
To check out the complete article along with all of the high-fashion photos of Hathaway, check out
W Magazine.
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