"I'm big on therapy," Mendes told me yesterday. "I've always said I love talking about therapy, because there's nothing wrong with it. Why wait until something goes terrible in your life to start fixing things?"
Mendes, 34, has never talked details about why she did a stint in rehab earlier this year, but she did tell me that one of her biggest issues was coping with her own success. "Up until recently, I was really uncomfortable with having success and enjoying it," Mendes says. "I just couldn't deal with that. How can I have so much? It's not fair. How can the world have so little?…I allowed it to mess with me in the sense that I just didn't know how to handle it."
Things are different now. "I've really broken it down to this simple thing: I deal with everything by giving it away," Mendes explains. "It's genius. It works."
She literally gives things away, like the new pair of Cartier sunglasses she insisted an elderly friend of hers keep when she tried them on. "I said, 'You need to have them. They look really good on you,' " Mendes says.
Eva Mendes At The Women Premiere in Westwood
