The New Girl star covers the May issue of Marie Claire and chats candidly with the magazine about dating, divorce, being bullied as a young girl.
On her recent divorce from Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie)
“Honestly, I’m just going through a divorce, so I don’t really think that’s something I want to get into now,” she said about returning to the dating game. “I don’t have time to date. I literally –- don’t-have-time.”
On her rumoured romance with comedian Russell Brand
“I don’t even know him, by the way. On the scale of truth and completely preposterous — it’s completely preposterous.”
On maternal instincts
“That’s never been my focus…My sister [Emily] was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff. I like kids, and I like being around kids –- but it was never an ambition, something, like, I need…I like working. That’s what I like doing. I like to work.”
On being bullied at a young age
“I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I’m the same person. I really don’t know why she spit at me. I just talked to her. I guess I wasn’t allowed to talk to her. I remember I couldn’t believe it. Certainly you change, and you change perspective, you have other experiences. But isn’t it funny – I can still remember when I was treated differently from the way I’m treated now.”
[LA Times]
