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Would Rachel Bilson Do a Revival of "The O.C.?"
Rachel Bilson wants to wide the air.
Back successful June, The O.C. prima reflected connected her July 2020 breakup with Bill Hader connected her Broad Ideas podcast, noting, "I could not permission my house, you cognize what I mean? I had thing other to bash but beryllium successful it, and woody with it and consciousness it. It was astir apt the hardest happening I've ever done, harder than childbirth."
But Rachel—who shares girl Briar Rose, 7, with ex Hayden Christensen—is present clarifying: She wasn't comparing the divided itself to the life-changing event, but alternatively commenting connected the complexity of life during the COVID-19 lockdown.
"I said it was during a clip wherever you could not permission your house," she said during the Aug. 31 occurrence of the Call Her Daddy podcast. "You had to beryllium successful immoderate it was that you were going through. So, I had to woody with this, I had to woody with being unsocial and taking attraction of my kid and everything else."
As Rachel explained, "Being isolated and not being capable to link with immoderate humans, not being capable to assistance myself," led to an acquisition with depression. "Like each of these things—that clip having to unit facing each of your s--t," she shared. "I said was harder than childbirth."
In fact, Rachel noted that determination are precise fewer instances you tin comparison childbirth to.
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"Is determination thing much painful? F--k no," she shared. "Maybe kidney stones—definitely a adjacent second. But like, no, I didn't accidental that. All breakups are hard. Especially erstwhile you're successful thing that you're truly into and things happen. You know, things change. There was a pandemic. There were truthful galore things going on. So, it was a hard time."
The actress—who archetypal sparked rumors of a romance with the Barry actor aft the 2 were photographed connected a java date successful precocious 2019—noted that owed to the pandemic, their breakup didn't hap "in person," but besides called the divided itself an "almost blessing successful disguise."
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"Having to beryllium unsocial with each of the s--t, and your thoughts, I had to look astatine everything," she shared. "It gave maine that clip to truly bash things for myself."
As for the crushed down the split? "I deliberation it was the accent of the concern of the satellite that led to it," Rachel said. "No 1 knew however to beryllium oregon however to respond and I deliberation it was conscionable a effect of that. The accent of it all."
But the Jumper histrion has travel retired of that hard clip with a caller outlook connected life.
"I was blessed I was forced to beryllium successful the symptom oregon the hurt, you know," she shared. "All the feelings that came on with it, due to the fact that I got to get done it."
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