Hilary: Chad’s Substance Abuse Caused Split

@ Gone Hollywood | Thursday, July 6, 2006

In yet another Hollywood effort to air their dirty laundry, Hilary Swank comes clean to Vanity Fair about her split with Chad Lowe. She claims that his battle with substance abuse (which she said he kept from her and was shocked to find out) was at the heart of their marital problems.

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“I knew something was happening but I didn’t know what,” Swank tells Vanity Fair magazine. But, she says in excerpts from the interview obtained by the New York Post, “When I found out, it was such a shock because I never thought he’d keep something from me. And yet, on another level, it was a confirmation of something I was feeling that was keeping us from being completely solid.”

She goes on to say, “I don’t want to make it seem like that’s the sole reason; there were other factors. But that just kind of blew it open. It made me look at things a lot deeper. That’s when you realize it’s not going to work.”

Chad Lowe’s rep could not be reached for comment, but me thinks that Mr. Lowe might not be quite so happy about it.