Meg Ryan praises Crowe's grace under fire

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Ryan praises Crowe's grace under fire

02/03/2006 - 08:00:41

Meg Ryan has praised ex-lover Russell Crowe for keeping details of her
broken marriage to Dennis Quaid to himself when he was accused of being a
home-wrecker.

Ryan insists her marriage was irreparably damaged long before she met and
fell for Crowe on the set of Proof of Life and he became a shoulder for her
to cry on as she went through divorce proceedings.

Looking back, Ryan feels she and Crowe were vilified by the media by seeming
to have a romance that shattered her marriage, and she'll always be grateful
to the actor for not telling the press what was really going on.

happening marriage for a very long time. I probably should have left much
earlier.

"I'm very sad that it all had to come apart in the way that it seemed to
have. It was never about another man, it was only about my and Dennis'
relationship just couldn't sustain.

"He (Crowe) wasn't a home-wrecker and he took a lot of heat for that and he
had a lot of grace, frankly, about not talking about things that he knew
were going on in my marriage and I'll be very grateful for him for a long
time for that.

"Divorce is an impossibly hard transition in your life and he was there for
a few months."