Reese Witherspoon is sharing an update after her father, John Witherspoon, was hospitalized.
“Earlier today, several outlets reported that my dad was taken to the hospital,” Reese, 50, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Friday, August 7. “I want to let everyone know that he is fine now. He is being taken care of by wonderful doctors and nurses.”
She concluded, “Thank you to everyone who reached out. It means the world to our family.”
Reese is the daughter of John, 84, and his wife, Betty Witherspoon, who also share are parents of son John D. Witherspoon. Both the Morning Show actress and her brother have since expanded their own families. Reese, for her part, shares Ava, 26, and Deacon, 22, with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, as well as son Tennessee, 13, with ex-husband Jim Toth.
“There was so much I didn’t know,” Reese recalled of being a young parent on The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast in September 2025. “Maybe that naïveté was good because it’s like, ‘Oh, I’ll just do that and have a career.’ And I did have a few people say to me, ‘This is going to be really hard on your career.’”
She continued at the time, “There were roles I couldn’t take. I had to have this immediate balance of family and career, being a mom and being a working actress. That’s why it was also scary when Legally Blonde became such a big hit. I wasn’t going to beg for parts; parts were coming to me. And that almost made it scarier, because I wasn’t picking and choosing what I would reach and strive for. It was more like, what will I not do?”
Reese, who was 23 when she gave birth to Ava, has since found her motherhood journey shift as her kids have grown up.
“It is about honesty. First of all, you know, you’re managing them a lot when they’re little. It is very physical,” Witherspoon previously revealed during an October 2022 appearance on the Today show. “And then, it is more emotional support and suggestions — not telling them what to do when they get a little bit older. But you have to really nurture your adult relationships with your children, too, and give them respect and space to become who they are and not who you want them to be.”
Reese was married to Phillippe, 51, from 1999 to 2007, later agreeing to amicably coparent Ava and Deacon. The Legally Blonde star moved on with Toth, 56, and they were married from 2011 to 2023.
