Reese Witherspoon has called out a viral trend that’s left her incredibly “upset”.
Witherspoon took to her official social media platforms to film a video where she spoke directly to fans after revealing that she’d been dealing with a problem for the last 24 hours.
She revealed that multiple people have been impersonating her online and attempting to take advantage of fans through private messages.
The Hollywood star said that fans are even been extorted out of money.
“I want to just tell you what I’ve been dealing with for the 24 hours,” she says in the video message. “There are multiple people on TikTok and Instagram impersonating me.”
“I want you to know this is not me. And it’s so upsetting that people would use my name to manipulate people, but I want you to know that I would never ever manipulate you. I would never reach out to you for money, for private information, to a create a meetup time.”
She urged fans to be careful and warned them not to share any details with anyone who they believe is her.
“Please look at these accounts that are doing this and make sure they’re verified,” she cautioned. “Please be careful out there and please know I would never, never reach out to you to manipulate you or take anything from you.”
It comes after Witherspoon made a rare comment revealing what it felt like to be a young mother in Hollywood.
The actress, who was married to Ryan Phillippe from 1999 to 2008, explained that she didn’t realize the sacrifices she would have to make in her acting career after giving birth to their daughter, Ava, in 1999.
“And maybe that naïveté was good, because it’s like, ‘Oh, I’ll just do that and have a career,’” Witherspoon, 49, continued. “And I did have a few people say to me, ‘This is going to be really hard on your career.’”
The Big Little Lies star explained there “were roles (she) couldn’t take,” as she navigated balancing her “family and career, being a mum and being a working actor.”
“That’s why it was also scary when Legally Blonde became such a big hit,” she said, referring to the 2001 Robert Luketic-directed drama. “I wasn’t going to beg for parts; parts were coming to me.”
“And I was like, ‘But, I am a mom,’” she recalled. “There was so much about our business that desexualized you, so you couldn’t be a movie star if you played a mom.
“And thank goodness, that’s sort of going by the wayside. But that was a big part of when I was in my 20s and 30s: ‘Don’t play a mom. No men will desire you, or nobody will want to go see that movie because nobody wants to see a movie about a mom.’”
Meanwhile, Withspoon is reportedly teaming up with Aniston to throw a surprise divorce party for their close pal, Nicole Kidman.
