At 53, Cameron Diaz Reveals The Reason She RAN AWAY From Hollywood

For over a decade, one of the biggest comedy stars of her era simply stopped showing up, and the reason she finally gives is quieter than any rumor Hollywood invented. This is the full arc, from a working-class Long Beach teenager spotted at a party and flown to Japan and Paris for modeling, to an accidental audition for The Mask opposite Jim Carrey that made her a star at twenty-one. From there came There's Something About Mary, the Charlie's Angels films, and voicing Princess Fiona across the Shrek franchise, the run that turned her into a name studios could build openings around and pushed her paydays to twenty million dollars a picture. Behind the box office, Diaz was keeping a different kind of score. We trace what she said on the Quarantined with Bruce and Kevin Hart appearances, in InStyle and at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, her marriage to Benji Madden, the Avaline wine label, raising her daughter Raddix in private, and the Jamie Foxx call that finally brought her back on her own terms with Back in Action.