Anne Hathaway
The Hollywood star speaks openly about his miscarriage
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In 2015, Anne Hathaway went through hell. During her Broadway engagement, she played a pilot who gives birth to a child – while privately she loses her child. The Hollywood star now remembers the pain in an interview.
Anne Hathaway had a miscarriage: “The first time didn’t work for me”
For six weeks, Anne Hathaway stood alone on stage for almost 85 minutes night after night at the Public Theater in New York. In the Broadway play “Grounded,” she portrayed a pregnant fighter pilot whose psyche was consumed by the human cost of war.
“I was doing a play and had to give birth on stage every night,” Anne recalls in the Vanity Fair cover story. In the midst of this demanding commitment, she lost her baby. “The first time didn’t work for me,” says Hathaway, looking back.
“It was too much. I had to tell the truth”
One evening, friends watched Anne’s performance and visited her backstage. Then she told them the truth. “It was too much when I pretended everything was fine on stage. I had to tell the truth, otherwise…”.
Anne Hathaway paused for a moment and then spoke about her Instagram post from 2019. Because this unusually open contribution still means a lot to her today. She didn’t want to just reveal that she was pregnant. “Given the pain I felt trying to conceive, it would have been disingenuous to post something entirely happy when I know the story is much more nuanced than that for everyone.”
Anne tears up: “It’s really hard to want something so much”
Hathaway further explains: “When things were going well for me and I was on the other side […] I wanted to let my sisters know: ‘You don’t always have to be merciful. I see you and I was you.'”
As those words leave her mouth, Anne’s eyes fill with tears, according to Vanity Fair. She elaborates: “It’s really hard to want something so badly and wonder if you’re doing something wrong.” They are strong words from a woman who wants to encourage other sufferers – and certainly does.
Sources used: instagram.com, vanityfair.com, nytimes.com