Reese Witherspoon has called her 2005 divorce from Ryan Phillippe “humiliating and very isolating”.

Witherspoon and Phillippe – who have two children together – ended their relationship after almost 8-years of marriage.

And the Legally Blonde beauty admits the love split was hard to deal with.

Reese tells the April issue of Elle magazine, “Very humiliating and very isolating…But, by the way, if it’s not painful, maybe it wasn’t the right decision to marry to begin with. Those are the appropriate emotions. When people get in your face and say, ‘This will pass,’ you think, Are they crazy?

“I’m never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing’s ever gonna make sense again. And I still have moments where I’m like, nothing’s ever gonna make sense again.”

On boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal, Witherspoon added: “He’s fabulous. He really is a fantastic guy.”

And on being a young mother Reese – who is mom to Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4 – said: “When I first had Ava, I couldn’t afford [help]. And it was so hard.

“I was out in Los Angeles, living [away from my family]. I really didn’t have any friends. And I had a baby. No one else who was 22 had a baby. I couldn’t go out.”