Ryan Phillippe Urges You Not To Order That Abbie Cornish Voodoo Doll

Ryan Phillippe has come out in defense of his alleged giirrrrrllllfriend Abbie Cornish – who was seen putting a Christmas wreath on her head in an effort to impress his children over the holidays – and says that, contrary to the belief of the gossip mag set, she was in fact not the reason he and America’s Sweetheart™ Reese Witherspoon broke up.

Phillippe and Cornish have been sort of dating for a fair while now and we’re sure her tendency to wear topiary as hats has nothing to do with his reticence when it comes to officially confirming their relationship.

He claimed the reason for the break-up from the mother of his two children was “far more complicated and far less interesting than it was made out to be”.

“It was unfair for (Abbie) to be called the names that she was, because it wasn’t about that,” he said.

Cornish was mauled by the American showbiz media over the rumoured role she played in wooing Witherspoon’s husband when the pair met on the set of Stop: Loss. But Phillippe said no other woman was responsible for his divorce.

“I don’t think an outside person can ever cause a divorce. I had difficulties in my relationship and in my marriage long before I ever met (Abbie).”

Well, that’s good then, because it was causing almighty tears in the space/time fabric of Australian women’s magazines – on the one hand, they wanted to call her “lovely”, “radiant” and “beautiful”, but they can’t use those words if she’s a marriage wrecking harlot, either, and lord knows the Weekly et al love to call a woman “lovely”.