Ryan Phillippe’s got a new rule for dating: “No one with a publicist!”
The Crash hunk is on the hunt for love…..as long as you don’t have “people,” an agent, or anyone else capable of leaking information to the press.
“I have a new rule not to date anyone who has a publicist,” Ryan told Howard Stern on Sirius XM radio on Monday. Ryan’s still healing after either dumping or being dumped by (depending on who’s telling the story) ex-girlfriend Abbie Cornish last February. Therefore the star wasted no time hitting out at the Aussie actress and her loose-lipped representatives when quizzed on the split by Stern: “Who announces a breakup?” Ryan fumed. “I don’t understand that! There’s no need for that.”
Oh — and while we’re on the topic, Ryan’s really tired of how he’s been treated by the media, since his split from former wife of seven years Reese Witherspoon in 2007. “I’ve been dumped on in the press for relationship stuff since Reese and I divorced. I’m tired of getting shit on. I don’t feel like I deserve it. Things happen!”
Ryan, 35, adds that not only are he and Reese great friends, they even help each other through breakups.
Ryan – – who has daughter Ava, 10, and six-year-old son Deacon with Witherspoon — said: “It’s gotten to a place where we’re great friends and great co-parents. After I had my breakup, she called, and after she did, I called.”
Despite their closeness, Ryan insists he hasn’t been intimate with Reese since they called it quits.
“That’s never happened.”