It’s been a year and a half since actor Paul Walker died in a car crash on November 30, 2013, leaving his “Fast and Furious” castmates, friends and family, deeply grieving mostly in private. But as Michelle Rodriguez was getting ready to promote “Furious 7”, the actress opened up to Entertainment Weekly about how she had been dealing with the death of her good, trusted friend, Paul Walker. Rodriguez said the shock caused her to somewhat lose it, “I went pretty crazy. A lot of the stuff I did last year I would never do had I been in my right mind.”
On the tabloids, it seemed like the actress was having a pretty fun time while being photographed with alleged girlfriend British supermodel Cara Delevingne, partying on a yacht with Justin Bieber and reportedly dating, almost simultaneously, “Neighbors” star Zac Efron. Rodriguez says these things were done in an attempt to push herself to feel, but instead she was in fact trying to ignore everything she was feeling. “I felt like nothing I could do could make me feel alive, so I just kept pushing myself harder and harder. I was traveling and I was having sex.”
Rodriguez also explained it wasn’t that she saw Walker every day, but he was a dependable presence in her life and the “Fast and Furious” family for 16 years. She says she found comfort in knowing there was another human being who was deep and loved deep like her. When that disappears, you wonder, ‘Wait a minute, what do I hold on to?’”
Michelle’s pain is nowhere near gone, but earlier this year the actress found a renewed love for life and got back on track. “I just woke up [one morning] with a profound respect for living,” she says. “I stood tall one day and I said, ‘You know what, Michelle? Stop f—ing hiding. Go manifest.’ And all of a sudden, I picked myself up and started hustling.”
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