In 2001, Meg and her husband, actor Dennis Quaid, divorced. The very public end of their marriage was covered exhaustively in the tabloid press because of Meg's reported affair with her then co-star Russell Crowe.

Meg says being subjected to such public scrutiny in such a private moment was "heartbreaking," especially because her son with Dennis was so young at the time.

"I feel like you can never really win in the way a tabloid tells a story," she says. "It's a very black-and-white, overly simplistic moral universe that certain people's stories are supposed to fit in. … There's no room for gray."