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Cameron Diaz did not appear in a movie or a televised role since 2014. It's a bit shocking when you consider the time to whichDiaz decided to leave Hollywood Behind: In 2013, she was thefemale actor of the most paid More than 40 years, according toHollywood journalistWhich means it was really the height of his career. And although his acting break could have been surprising and disappointing for fans, she could not feel better about the decision. The star over 48 years old openedwhy she ceased to act Over the years, but in a new interview withKevin HartIt gives more insight into its process of thought. Read it to see what Diaz had to say to leave Hollywood at 40 years old.

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InAn interview with Hart on his peacock showHart to the heart, Diazmakes it clear that it has not ceased to act Because she does not appreciate it anymore, but because she wanted to have more control. She wanted to run her own life rather than having other people run it for her.

She said that when she was acting - she described as "something at a very high level for a long time" - many aspects of his life were to be given to other people. She listed finances and her home as examples, as well as "the management of me as a human being". She added: "Not me like Cameron Diaz. Cameron Diaz is a machine. But for my personal spiritual staff, I realized that this part of me who worked at a high level was not enough."

She explained that about 40 years, "I just realized that I watched around me and it was just, as if many parts of my life I did not touch on and that I did not succeed. And I could not really manage it., Because it was so big. Everything was so massive. "

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Stop smoking means that Diaz could put you life and do more by itself. "I really wanted to really make my life manageable by me," she said to Hart. "My routine in a day is literally what I can achieve by myself ... It's the best feeling. I feel complete."

Diaz made a similar comment in an interview withGwyneth Paltrow forAt Goop Health: sessions Last year. "It was not my comfort zone, to be taken care of, but I understood that it was part of the work," said Diaz 2020. "I still had to become self-reliant. I really need to know That I could take care of myself and I knew how to be an adult. "She said she felt" peace in my soul "after escaping an actor.

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Diaz started going out with her husband, musicianBenji Madden, in 2014, the same year as his last film,Annie, has been freed. The couple married in 2015 and welcomed a girl,RADDIX, in 2019.

"I met my husband. We started a family. All these things I did not have the time before - and I did not just have time to do, but did not have space To make the right decisions for me when bringing it, "Diaz told Hart of his life after acted.

As for other works, Diaz launched a wine company, avalin, at the time, it ceased to act, with friends and co-founderKatherine Power. She also released her second book,The longevity book, in 2016.

To be clear, Diaz said she had not started hating her work after 20 years in Hollywood (starting with her role as breakfastJim Carrey'slove interest inThe maskIn 1994). "It's fun to do it. I like that. I love to act," said Diaz onHart to the heart. "I can go forever. I feel literally as sometimes I have unlimited energy and inertia."

But as to whether it will act again, Diaz said she was not in a hurry . "It's been a long time since seven years or six years since I've been doing a movie. Girl, I'm fine with that," she said in an interview of 2020 October Naomi Campbell For its series No filter with Naomi . "There is no part of me it's like" I have to go to a camera! "I do not feel like that - and that does not mean that I will not have one day. But I'm really solved where I'm now."

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