Reese Witherspoonis coming clean about what really distracts her from the road while driving.
TheLegally Blondeactress, 43, made an appearance onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show, airingThursday,and opened up about her experience teaching her son,Deacon, how to drive.
Witherspoon admitted that while she is a seasoned driver, her son is actually more focused on the road than she is due to some road-side dog distractions.
“You’re teaching him how to drive?” DeGeneres asked Witherspoon.
“Yes, he’s starting to drive, God help us all,” Witherspoon first joked. “But he’s a good driver, he’s actually a better driver than I am. I get distracted a lot because I see cute dogs and I’m like ‘Oh, I gotta pull over!’ and I literally will pull over the car and get out of the car — if it’s a bulldog,” she admitted, adding, “Only a bulldog. I’m very preferential of certain breeds.”
“If someone’s walking a dog, or just if it’s loose you mean?” the host followed.
“If it’s being walked you’ll just pull over and get out? Wow,” DeGeneres laughed.
“Oh yeah. You don’t do that?” Witherspoon asked, hoping the host was just as dog-obsessed.
“I’ll do it if they look lost, but I don’t pull over if someone’s walking a dog and stop them from their day,” joked DeGeneres, as the mother-of-three chimed, “No, I’ll do that.”
“I guess that’s really exciting for people that Reese Witherspoon all the sudden is coming out to see their dog,” added DeGeneres.
Witherspoon laughed, “There’s probably a lot of pictures in the world of me on the side of a road with a dog. I just have a weird thing about bulldogs.”
TheSweet Home Alabamastar has two bulldogs of her own — French bulldog, Pepper, and her newest addition, English bulldog, Louis Armstrong.
“Oh my god, I mean what are we talking about, I can’t,” said Witherspoon, gushing over a photo of the family puppy on the talk show. “He’s so big now, I should’ve brought a more recent picture.”
“Now he’s 16 weeks and he’s eaten the majority of the cabinets in my kitchen, but it’s okay, I don’t care. I’ll get a new kitchen,” she joked.
The actress shared news of Lou’s adoption in June on Instagram, captioning a sweet photo of the pup, “Welcome to the family, Lou!” Witherspoon also added the hashtag “#lovemybulldog.”
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The same day, she shared more clips of Lou to her Instagram Story, showing the pup sitting in his bed and stretching his legs in the backyard.
The addition of Lou comes almost two months afterthe death of Witherspoon’s dog Nashin April.
“Rest In Peace, our Sweet dog, Nash,”she captioned an Instagram shotof Nash standing in a garden at the time. “Hope you are running through gorgeous fields of grass and eating all the treats you want in Dog Heaven.”
source: people.com
