Jennifer Garner praises Reese Witherspoon for helping her through a "very public, very painful time" in her life.

Reese Witherspoon became weak and emotional yesterday at an event hosted in Los Angeles by her media company Hello Sunshine, telling the assembled audience that at a difficult time in her life about a year ago, she was "the glue in whose life, whether it be work, mother, partner but you know who is the glue that holds you together?" He said he realized that he was not the only one. He added, "We support a lot of people." [Witherspoon is a mother, actress, producer, philanthropist, and founder, among many other roles, as fellow actress Jennifer Garner detailed at yesterday's "Shine Away" event how Witherspoon helped her through a dark phase in her life and is also a wonderful friend.

"I remember going through a very public and very painful moment in my life," Garner told Witherspoon at yesterday's event." This was right there."

And in addition to emotional support, Witherspoon also encouraged another form of healing: dancing." The way I needed to get through it was to dance for cardio," Garner said, per E! News. 'I did so much cardio that I broke her leg, but she kept going. To which Witherspoon responded, "Just keep dancing, ladies. Keep dancing."

Not even a broken leg stopped this pair." Garner said, "I was like, 'Okay, I'm on vacation, I'm working out at seven,'" Garner said, "and I was like, 'Let's work out again at two.' She was like, 'Okay. I'm going to be there."

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Neither Garner nor Witherspoon shared when this happened or what exactly Garner was facing, but E! News reported that Witherspoon had twisted her leg in 2011; in 2015, Garner's husband, the father of her three children experienced what she herself described as a difficult time in her life when she separated from Ben Affleck.

"It's not the going through it in public that's hard, it's the going through it that's hard, A," she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021.

"And B is that the eyes of the children are on me."

Nevertheless, Garner is an unwaveringly positive person, telling People in 2021 of herself, "I've learned I'm pretty sturdy. She is "fine being alone in the house. I'm fine if it's just the kids and me. If the kids fall apart, I'm fine. But really, I'm fine."

She also said that she "has learned to be very strong.