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After his death, the actress dated actor Jason Segel, Spike Jonze and financial consultant Andrew Youmans. Williams told
“Obviously I’ve never once in my life talked about a relationship, but Phil isn’t just anyone else,” she said. “And that’s worth something. Ultimately the way he loves me is the way I want to live my life on the whole. I work to be free inside of the moment. I parent to let Matilda feel free to be herself, and I am finally loved by someone who makes me feel free.”
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She continued, “This kind of freedom, it’s the thing that I look for. It’s been a theme in my life. It’s the thing that I experience in Montana, the thing that I experience onstage, the thing that I get in my work in between ‘action’ and ‘cut.’”
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As for keeping her personal life private, Williams said she was more keen on helping others who had experienced grief in their lives.
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“I don’t really want to talk about any of it. But what if this helps somebody?” she said. “What if somebody who has always journeyed in this way, who has struggled as much as I struggled, and looked as much as I looked, finds something that helps them?”
She continued, “Don’t settle. Don’t settle for something that feels like a prison or is hard, or hurts you. If it doesn’t feel like love, it’s not love.”