Isla Fisher has broken her silence on her high-profile divorce from Sacha Baron Cohen.
The Aussie actress, who announced her split with the Borat actor in April last year, revealed how she had been picking up the pieces in the wake of the split, admitting that the Carl Jung method had helped her heal in a healthy way.
The Jungian method is a therapeutic approach that explores unconscious forces, dreams, symbols, and archetypes, with an aim towards self-understanding, self-integration, and fulfilment.
‘This is totally personal and I say this with the caveat as it worked for me, but the concept of processing stuff and taking your time, thinking about it again and again, you don’t really feel better that way,’ she told The Australian.
Instead, the Wedding Crashers star kept moving following the divorce, saying ‘yes’ to any opportunity that came her way and throwing herself into her work.
The move has seen the 49-year-old keeping busy on film sets, staying active in her community and reinventing herself creatively after what she calls a parental ‘power pause’.
Isla Fisher has broken her silence on her high-profile divorce from Sacha Baron Cohen
The Aussie actress, who announced her split with the Borat actor in April last year, revealed how she had been picking up the pieces in the wake of the split, admitting that the Carl Jung method had helped her heal in a healthy way
‘It’s amazing to me that at this point in my life I’ve got this opportunity, in a positive way, to reinvent what the last act of my life is now from the ground up,’ she said, gushing that she loved returning to work.
The actress went on to explain she didn’t fall out of love with acting during her hiatus from the screen, she was just more in love with motherhood, and still is.
But now, thanks to the extra time that co-parenting brings, she can do both.
‘For most parents, we focus on our kids and it’s so divine and magical and so absorbing, but now I have some time where the kids aren’t with me, so I get some time to think about what the future might hold for me.’
The actress has made sporadic film appearances in recent years, voicing parts in Back to the Outback in 2021 and Strays in 2023.
She also had a role in the 2024 film The Present, her first on-camera film appearance in four years.
After her split from Sacha became public, however, Isla appeared in the big budget film Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
She has four films all due to be released either this year or next, marking her busiest working period since 2016 when she appeared in Keeping Up with the Joneses, Nocturnal Animals and Grimsby with then-husband Sacha.
The Wedding Crashers star kept moving following the divorce, saying ‘yes’ to any opportunity that came her way and throwing herself into her work
Isla is due to appear in heist film Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, coming-of-age drama Jay Kelly and action comedy Playdate with Kevin James.
Most recently, she was spotted filming another upcoming comedy Spa Weekend in her native Australia alongside Leslie Mann and Anna Faris.
Isla, who shares three children with Sacha, recently admitted she is ‘not ready’ to date again, instead opting to focus on her film career.
‘That’s not on my to-do list. I’m not ready to think about any of that,’ she told The Sunday Times earlier this year.
Isla explained her own parents separated when she was nine-years-old and admitted their peaceful arrangement was what she now strives for.
She said: ‘It was very harmonious, I don’t ever remember them fighting about anything… they were very inclusive of each other.’
When asked if that was the ‘blueprint’ for her separation, Isla said: ‘That’s the dream.’
