Renée Zellweger left Hollywood for years because she was sick of the sound of her own voice

Renée Zellweger is reflecting connected her six-year hiatus from Hollywood, which opened up the accidental to "get healthy."

Zellweger, who recovered fame starring successful movies similar "Jerry Maguire" and "Cold Mountain," was featured connected the screen of British Vogue's February 2025 issue and explained that determination was 1 circumstantial crushed she decided to permission the spotlight successful 2010.

"Because I needed to. I was sick of the dependable of my ain voice."

Renée Zellweger took a six-year interruption from acting. (Getty Images)

"When I was working, I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, perceive to you. Are you bittersweet again, Renée? Oh, is this your huffy voice?' It was a regurgitation of the aforesaid affectional experiences," she told the outlet.

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Prior to her instrumentality to Hollywood successful 2016, Zellweger "wrote euphony and studied planetary law."

"Because I needed to. I was sick of the dependable of my ain voice."

She besides "built a house, rescued a brace of older doggies, created a concern that led to a accumulation company, advocated for and fundraised with a sick person and spent alot of clip with household and godchildren and driving crossed the state with the dogs."

"I got healthy," Zellweger explained.

Renée Zellweger astatine the "Jerry Maguire" premiere. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

The "Bridget Jones's Diary" prima was asked if she got a do-over if she would ever get into acting successful the archetypal place. Zellweger said, "I’m not definite that the mode that it works now, personage and each of that stuff, I don’t cognize that that suits me."

She believes "there utilized to beryllium a enactment betwixt personage and art" in Hollywood. Now, 25 years later, Zellweger says it "has go progressively ambiguous."

"And 'notorious' and 'famous' and 'known' are present each the aforesaid thing. It utilized to beryllium that you were known due to the fact that you had done thing that was worthy knowing about," she continued. 

Renée Zellweger won an Oscar for champion histrion for the movie "Judy" successful 2020. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

In 2019, Zellweger told Fox News Digital what brought her backmost to the acting world.

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"I privation to play. I wanted to play. I emotion that this pistillate is truthful audacious and escaped and that she taps into her entitlement and her powerfulness and her sexuality to manipulate everybody and everything astir her to get what she wants," Zellweger said astir her show arsenic Anne Montgomery successful "What/If." "That's not thing I bash each day. So it was fun."

Since returning to acting, Zellweger won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her relation successful the biopic "Judy," which debuted successful 2019 and focused connected Judy Garland's life. 

Leo Woodall stars alongside Renée Zellweger successful "Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy." (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

When asked however she managed to wholly transmission the precocious Garland successful the Rupert Gold-directed adaptation of the Oliver-and-Tony Award-nominated signifier amusement "End of the Rainbow," the Academy Award-winning histrion paused to deliberation astir Garland’s beingness and endowment earlier explaining her extremity successful presenting what hasn’t been shown astir the iconic performer. 

"I approached it truly humbly with curiosity and lifelong admiration – awe, really," Zellweger told Fox News Digital astatine the time. "And I conscionable wanted to larn arsenic overmuch arsenic I could and work betwixt the lines due to the fact that I deliberation that a batch of what we benignant of code successful the movie has gone unaddressed oregon not."

The "Jerry McGuire" histrion continued. "It's conscionable what isn't successful the nonfiction that was written astir her. What'd they permission out? What are the extenuating circumstances that cipher wants to speech about? What's happening successful the backstage moments? And truthful I conscionable – I sat with each of the facts and each of the benignant of linear past of this play successful her life, and I tried to recognize from my ain idiosyncratic experiences and everything other that I work and what was missing successful the telling of this portion of the communicative of this portion of her life."

Renée Zellweger returned to Hollywood with the Netflix bid "What/If." (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

"But again, conscionable I wanted to beryllium cautious due to the fact that I, similar generations of people, I person loved her a lifetime. And truthful it's conscionable a peculiar acquisition it was thought to beryllium capable to unrecorded successful that exploration for a mates of years." 

Back successful 2016, erstwhile the histrion decided to instrumentality to Hollywood, she told Vogue that she was capable to person "life experiences" portion being retired of the limelight. 

"I recovered anonymity, truthful I could person exchanges with radical connected a quality level and beryllium seen and heard, not beryllium defined by this representation that precedes maine erstwhile I locomotion into a room," she told the outlet astatine the time. "You cannot beryllium a bully storyteller if you don't person beingness experiences, and you can't subordinate to people." 

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Turning down occupation opportunities was a spot hard for Zellweger – astatine first. 

"As a originative person, saying nary to that fantastic once-in-a-lifetime task is hard. But I was fatigued and wasn't taking the clip I needed to retrieve betwixt projects, and it caught up with me. I got sick of the dependable of my ain voice: it was clip to spell distant and turn up a bit," she explained. 

Renée Zellweger initially recovered turning down occupation opportunities to beryllium a challenge. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

The star's latest task is "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy." The movie is acceptable to debut connected Valentine's Day.

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The 4th installment of the Bridget Jones bid besides stars "White Lotus" actor, Leo Woodall. On Jan. 22, Woodall spoke astir moving with Zellweger connected "The Morning Show."

"She's conscionable a wonder. She's genuinely 1 of the nicest radical successful the satellite and I deliberation fans of Bridget are going to beryllium very, precise pleased. It's got each the beauteous Bridget-tisms that we emotion and it's an unthinkable movie."