Reese Witherspoon's trust issues

Oct 13, 2007, 8:30 GMT

10/10/2007 - Reese Witherspoon - Rendition Premiere - Arrivals - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Beverly Hills, CA, USA © GL / PR Photos

Reese Witherspoon finds it difficult to trust people.

The Oscar-winning actress, whose divorce from Ryan Phillippe was finalised this week, claims she struggles to develop string relationships because her mother raised her to only depend on herself.

Reese said: "I never rest on anyone else's ideas of what they are going to do for me. If you want something done, do it yourself. I have operated under that sensibility for a very long time.

"My mother impressed that on me at a very early age."

In new movie 'Rendition', Reese plays the wife of an American-Egyptian chemical engineer who goes missing after boarding a flight from Cape Town, South Africa.

She later learns he is a suspected terrorist who has been "rendered" by the CIA to a North African country to be interrogated.

Reese, 31, admits shooting the movie was very "difficult" and "isolating".

Reese said: "It was really difficult. It was really challenging playing that bewilderment and isolation and confusion. My character doesn't know what she is dealing with.

"It was hard, sad, alienating and isolating."

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