Crowe's turn to talk

Russell Crowe has responded to Meg Ryan's declaring that he "wasn't a home-wrecker" on the Oprah Winfrey show last month by saying it may have come too late. Ryan was referring to her relationship with Crowe after the pair worked together on Proof of Life in 2000, and Crowe was blamed by the media as being the catalyst in Ryan's split from then-husband Dennis Quaid. Ryan praised him on Oprah for taking "a lot of heat for that" and having a lot of grace. Crowe said in response, "It would have been nice to hear [her] say that a few years earlier. A lot of the badboy thing and attendant pressures came from that time. Everything seeps out from that, and a mould grows over you, because of the implications...it's really brave that she finally got around to talking about it in public...the horse has bolted and life has moved on."