You'd think that being a handsome, accomplished actor with legions of women who ogle and adore you from afar might be enough to bring some men out of the post-split funk.

For Ryan Philippe, that knowledge didn't help him in the slightest.

He's said after his divorce from Reese Witherspoon, there were "four or five months of not being able to get out of bed". He also calls it the "darkest, saddest time of my life".

It certainly shows how devastating divorce can be not just for women, but for men as well.

Nowadays Philippe has managed to recover some. He has a new film out, entitled Stop-Loss, and he calls the divorce recuperation a process, saying he "gets less and less sad about it every day".

Neither he nor Reese have said publicly why they divorced. All he said about it was the reason was "far more complicated and far less interesting" than what people have speculated.

A likely reason was simply the pull of their careers and the time spent apart while shooting movies. Some have said it has to do with Ryan's interest in his Stop-Loss costar Abbie Cornish, but Ryan has denied that on several occasions. He is rumored to be dating Cornish, however. Reese is currently dating Jake Gyllenhall.

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