Ashton Kutcher is going through a tough time.
The actor is making headlines for some very awkward red carpet snaps with his “Your Place Or Mine” co-star Reese Witherspoon. The two, busy promoting their new Netflix movie, appear to literally hate each other in recent photos.
Kutcher came clean about the photos — and her feelings for her co-stars — in an upcoming appearance on Barstool Sports’ “Chicks in the Office.”
In a teaser clip from the interview, set to be released Wednesday, Kutcher explained why he and Witherspoon look so uncomfortable sitting next to each other.
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“My wife called me. She texted Reese and said, ‘You guys have to act like you like each other,'” she said, rolling her eyes at the idea of the photos being memes.
“Here’s the thing,” Kutcher said.
“If I hugged her and was friendly with her, I would be in a relationship with her. For example, the rumor would be that I am in a relationship with her,” he said.
But, “If I sit next to her and put my hands in my pockets – then there’s no way that’s the rumor – the rumor is that we don’t like each other.”
What he said couldn’t be further from the truth.
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“Reese and I are really good friends, we’re really close,” she continued. “I don’t have to defend him.”
The former “Punk’d” co-creator added one last photo defense and talked about the chaos that comes with posing in front of a horde of photographers on a red carpet.
“If you’re going to tell me for this whole 20 minute period, at some point you’re not going to make an embarrassed face, then you’re better than me and that’s fine with me,” she said. .
Watch Kutcher’s explanation in full below:
