Anne Hathaway Reveals What Helped Her Get Through The Hard Times

Anne Hathaway reveals that making fun of the situation with her ex fiance Raffaello Follieri has helped her get through the difficult times.

Anne dumped Follieri last June, just weeks before he was arrested for fraud and money laundering, he was later sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison.

Hathaway, who has a new romantic comedy Bride Wars coming out this week with Kate Hudson,  insists she jokes about her ex to mask her pain at their split.  She tells USA Today newspaper:

“I started making fun of it around my friends and family and also to let everyone know it was okay to be struggling with it, as well. If I can find humour in it, that means I’m going to be okay. If something happens to me that I can’t laugh about, look out, there goes my soul.

“As horrible as what I went through was, it’s not the worst thing that could happen to a person. In the history of humanity, it doesn’t even come close.

“But I was talking to someone the other day and said, ‘There’ve been a lot of lessons, maybe not quite enough life’.”

And Anne says she is determined to learn from the traumatic events she went through in 2008 adding:

“I’d say this is the year (08) that I began to learn how to love, if anything. Going forward, it’s just crying all the time because I love everybody so much. It’s profound, and life-altering, and glorious.

“People who knew me and loved me best, like my parents, always respected my desire to be independent. But I couldn’t get by this year being independent. There’s merit in the lone-wolf, go-it-alone, follow-your-own-drummer thing, but I think I was taking it a little too far. And I got knocked on my (butt) this year in a big way.”