I Want To Give Anne Hathaway A Big Hug

Oh Anne Hathaway. I just want to bring you to my house, feed you cookies and peppermint tea, and braid your hair. It's bad enough to find out you're dating a douche, but to have to talk to the feds? Because he's not just a douche, but a criminal? Who said he was working for the POPE? And then to have it plastered all over the gossip rags and the internet? Oh honey, let me give you a big hug.

At least you can rest easy that the schmuck is most likely going to JAIL.

So that asshole I want to kick in the slats - oops, I mean Raffaello Follieri - has plead guilty to scamming millions of dollars out of investors in hopes of a lighter sentence. And now Anne Hathaway is talking to W Magazine about what this piece of shit did to her, and how she's been trying to cope. The excerpt that made me want to buy her a pony:

"As soon as I found out about the arrest, I had to get on a plane to Mexico to do a press tour for Get Smart. And then I spent a week in shock at a friend's house. And then I had to go back and do more press, and I haven't stopped since."...

She's been staying at a friend's downtown since moving out of the midtown apartment she shared with Follieri, which was searched by the authorities. "I have to find a place to live," she says numbly. But then her voice catches with emotion and pools form at the corners of her eyes as she struggles to articulate her messy mix of feelings. "It's a situation where the rug was pulled out from under me all of a sudden," she says. "But just as suddenly, my friends threw another rug back under me."

Oh jeez. Dude, we've all been there. Not with the money laundering, perhaps, but the rug being pulled, and the friends catching us when we fall. I suddenly want to send flowers to every friend who has ever helped me through a breakup.

And she goes on to give this awesome tidbit about the always kick ass Steve Carell, with whom she co-starred in Get Smart and had her back through the first weeks of this nightmare. As if you needed another reason to adore Carell, check this out:

"And Steve Carell, [her Get Smart costar] stepped up for me during an interview when someone asked a question [about it]. He said, 'At some point you're going to have to talk about this time in your life. You don't have to do it this week. I'll take care of anything that comes your way.' "

"Not everyone gets that," she adds, slightly teary-eyed. "A lot of people go through tough times alone."

Oh my GOD, you guys! Sorry, I just...have something in my eye. WHEW.

I'm just glad that Anne has good friends to get her through this hideousness, which of course, is magnified because it's in the public eye. For her to be so open about her emotions like this in a publication is commendable, in my opinion. I hope she continues to soldier on, and lean on her obviously loving and awesome friends. And I think we've all learned a very valuable lesson in all this:

Steve Carell is a freaking rockstar, and I hope that Follieri joker rots.