Cameron Diaz Found 'Peace' By Quitting Acting

Cameron Diaz Found 'Peace' By Quitting Acting 

Cameron Diaz has said she found "peace" in her "soul" after walking faraway from her Hollywood career two years ago.

Diaz is documented for her roles in films like There's Something About Mary, Charlie's Angels and Shrek.

But the last movie appearance of her 20-year career came within the 2014 adaptation of Annie.

"I got a peace in my soul, because I finally was taking care of myself," Diaz told Gwyneth Paltrow, on the guy actress's health podcast.

"It's a wierd thing to mention , i do know tons of individuals won't know it , i do know you know it , but it is so intense to figure at that level and be that public and put yourself out there," added the 47-year-old.

 

Cameron Diaz

"There's tons of energy coming at you in the least times when you're really visible as an actor and doing press and putting yourself out there."

Diaz confirmed her retirement from acting in 2018, but has previously stated that she is going to not rule out a return at some point .

The star, who made her breakthrough within the 1994 comedy The Mask opposite Jim Carrey, said the pressure of being liable for multi-million dollar movies might be "overwhelming", but that actors were mollycoddled and she or he wanted to be more self-sufficient.

'They Own You'

"I stopped and really checked out my life," she continued. "When you are making a movie, they own you. You're there for 12 hours each day for months on end, you've got no time for love or money else.

"I really needed to understand that I could lookout of myself, that I knew the way to be an adult."

Diaz married 41-year-old Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden in 2015 and therefore the couple had their first child, daughter Raddix, in December 2019.

She credited Paltrow with having encouraged her to become a mum.

"Being a mother at the age that i'm , i do not think I could are this parent at 25," Diaz admitted.

"I wouldn't became a mother if it wasn't for you," she told mum-of-two, Paltrow.

"You wont to talk, I'd be like, 'I'm not having kids'. And you're like: 'You are having kids, you're getting married, you're having children'."

In a separate interview with British Vogue, Paltrow herself stated that the term "conscious uncoupling", which she was roundly ridiculed for using to explain her separation from ex-husband Chris Martin in 2014, sounded "a bit filled with itself".

'Mockery and Anger'

The pair issued a joint statement about their split at the time, containing the phrase which she revealed they were introduced to by their therapist.

"Frankly, the term sounded a touch filled with itself, painfully progressive and hard to swallow," she said.

"I was intrigued, less by the phrase, but by the sentiment," she added. "Was there a world where we could hack and not lose everything?

"Could we be a family, albeit we weren't a couple?"

Paltrow, who is now married to TV producer Brad Falchuk, went on to mention that the often-quoted phrase led to a "a strange combination of mockery and anger that I even have never seen."