Renee Zellweger on Gay Rumors Surrounding Kenny Chesney Split: ‘That Made Me Sad’

 

Renée Zellweger is thinking about the tornado sentiment she once had with Kenny Chesney.

In a late meeting with The Advocate, the 47-year-old on-screen character opened up about her ex, and the "tragic" bits of gossip that twirled around the nation star taking after their split.

     

In 2005, Zellweger refered to "extortion" as the explanation behind their partition, four months after their cozy beachside wedding in the Virgin Islands. Because of the wording in Zellweger's abrogation documenting, numerous conjectured that the "Beverage It Up" artist might be gay.

"I disregarded that," Zellweger conceded. "It's a really huge thing to overlook, would it say it isn't? That made me dismal. It made me dismal that by one means or another individuals were utilizing that as an approach to be remorseless and calling somebody gay as an insulting, which has game changing results. Obviously, there's the master plan issue of why anybody needed to make up a story by any means."

"I'd said all I expected to say on that subject," she included. "I'm an out-dated lady who doesn't feel it's suitable to hang out your clothing on the yard. I feel you debase yourself as an individual when you impart extremely individual things to a bajillion outsiders who are ridiculing you. I simply don't see that there's any pride in that."

"However, at times it is hard to simply give something a chance to be what it is, particularly when it's superfluous grotesqueness," she proceeded. "Once you've said your piece, shouldn't that be sufficient? What's more, why is the grotesqueness that is propagated in the media so appealing to individuals?"

Two years after their separation, Chesney denied the bits of gossip himself in a meeting with a hour, telling Anderson Cooper, "It's not valid. Period."

"Possibly I ought to have turned out and said, 'No, I'm not [gay],' but rather I would not like to attract any more regard for it," he said at the time. "I didn't need to demonstrate to anyone that I wasn't [gay]. I didn't feel like I truly did."

Presently, over 10 years after the fact, Zellweger can snicker about the circumstance, offering an entertaining story to The Advocate about once getting snapped on the shoreline with one of her gay comrades.

"The larger part of my dearest companions are gay, and I have my pearl. I went to Miami for New Year's Eve a few years back with him and his sweetheart, and we got paparazzied on the shoreline," she clarified. "We had an exceptionally Bridget Jones minute – he had no craving to be captured in his trunks, so he let me know, 'You have to leave and go for a run at this moment!' Some newspaper ran the photographs and composed, 'Has Renée at long last discovered her pearl?' I resembled, 'Aww, he's my pearl!' He's family to me. We dated for a moment, really."

The journalist then playfully inquired as to whether she knew "he was gay," in which she reacted, "No, I knew he was gay – or had been gay. Be that as it may, he wasn't gay that day!"

Zellweger likewise opened up about coming back to the extra large screen to repeat her part as the adored Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones' Baby, the establishment's third portion, after an especially required break.

"I truly needed to play Bridget again in light of the fact that I cherish her and it sounded fun," she said. "It was egotistically persuaded. It had next to no to do with whatever else, such as carrying on the legacy of an excellent character that such a large number of individuals identify with."

The Texas local clarified that the break was less of "an excursion," and to a greater degree a "vital reset."

"I expected to step away for a brief moment with the goal that I could see what life looks like at this stage," she dished. "I know it sounds like I was on a shoreline some place – and no doubt, there was some of that – yet I was generally making sense of how I could fill my days, what I needed to realize next and how to develop as a man."

A month ago, ET made up for lost time with Zellweger, where she clarified how she's equipping to play a first-time mother in Bridget Jones' Baby, which hits theaters Sept. 16