As I discussed in today’s earlier Reese Witherspoon post, the whole “how will Reese comeback from her drunken arrest and pulling the ‘Do you know who I am?’ card?” is still very much in the air. Reese is either going to put herself out there immediately to damage control for her image, or she’s going to wait until the kerfuffle dies down a bit and then she’ll launch some kind of comeback. Part of it might be out of her control though – Reese is supposed to be promoting her new film, Mud, right now. She canceled a bunch of TV appearances last week, but she wasn’t able to pull this magazine interview with Red. Thankfully, she doesn’t say anything bad and she doesn’t talk about getting her drink on. Some highlights:

Giving birth to Tennessee made her mind go loopy: “Ever since I had the baby, I can’t remember anything. Serious, this child stole my brain. I’m losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can’t keep up with everything. I’ve got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby. It’s like CNN ticker tape running through my mind at all times [puts on robotic voice]: ‘Where is Ava? She’s okay. Good. Where is Deacon? He’s okay. Good. Where is Tennessee? Is he okay? Yes. Great. Back to Ava…’ It doesn’t stop.”

The gender pay gap: “Even now, in America, a woman makes 87 cents to every dollar a man makes. If you’re a black woman, you make 75 cents. You’re a latin woman, it’s 67 cents. And this is doing the same job. There is enormous inequality in pay and inequality in the workplace to this day.”

She displays her Oscar now: “Because Lord knows every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.”

Her business sense: “I feel like I know what I’m doing now”

Her girl-next-door personality: “People definitely hug me a lot, and hand me their babies. But it’s better than people throwing stuff at me, right?” she jokes. “I’m always met with smiles.”

She friends with Drew Barrymore & Cameron Diaz: “They’re just as charismatic and fun as you would imagine. It’s nice to hang with Drew because we both just had babies and we can support each other,” she says of Barrymore, 37, who welcomed daughter Olive last fall. “And Cameron is such a funny, bright gal. She’s an incredibly sharp business-minded woman, but she disguises that side of herself. It’s her secret alter ego.”

Female friendships: “I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends. They have literally gotten me up out of bed, taken my clothes off, put me in the shower, dressed me, said, ‘Hey, you can do this,’ put my high heels on and pushed me out the door!”

[From Us Weekly & The Mail]

You know what I’d like to see? I’d like part of Reese’s “comeback/apology tour” to involve not spending any more time with Chelsea Handler. I was thinking about this last week, as Chelsea Handler defended Reese’s arrest by saying it was “no big deal” – what would Chelsea have said if it was Angelina Jolie who got arrested? Chelsea would have thrown a parade. The tabloids would have thrown a parade. There would have been wall-to-wall coverage of Angelina being a terrible person and a terrible mother. So why does Reese get such special treatment? How does she get defended by Chelsea?

Photos courtesy of Red, Fame/Flynet.