Reese Witherspoon sent her assistant to tour Paris sewer with her son

Reese Witherspoon was on the David Letterman show last night rocking a strapless black knee length cocktail dress. The 32 year-old mother of two told some funny stories about her kids, Deacon, 5, and Ava, 9. She didn’t mention her boyfriend, Jake Gyllenhaal, or her ex, Ryan Phillippe. She kept it light and funny and had me laughing a few times.

David asked her about winning the Oscar and how it changed her life. She said she was nervous walking up to the podium and was worried that she might trip or swear. As to where she keeps the statue in her house, she said it’s in a place of honor along with her kids’ school crafts.

Keeps her Oscar in a place along with her kids’ artwork
“I just have it out with the kids’ artwork and stuff… The kids hold it and dress it up…

“The next morning [after winning the Oscar] my daughter was six and she’d just lost a tooth the night I had left. I said ‘you know honey that award we were talking about.. mommy won!’

“She said, ‘That’s amazing. You know what’s even cooler, I’m going to be the first kid in February to have lost a tooth’ and it just put it in perspective and we were both winners.”

On sending her assistant to tour the sewer in Paris with Deacon
Reese said she was in London and Paris with her kids this summer and that she wanted to see the Eiffel Tower and the Musée d’Orsay. Ava went with her to the art museum, but Deacon was dead set on touring the sewer.

Dave: “You can actually see the sewer system of Paris?”
Reese: “Oh yes and they explain to you, ‘when you flush the toilet, this is where it goes.’ This what my son wanted to do.”

“So I was very busy working and I couldn’t go, so I had my assistant go with him [laughs]. She said it was just awful, ‘Reese it smelled so bad it was disgusting, you’re so glad you didn’t go.’

“I said, D, how was it? He goes, ‘totally awesome.’

“They really go down into the sewer and explain the whole system and how it was built hundreds of years ago. It’s kind of cool.” [Transcribed from Reese Witherspoon’s appearance on the Late Show, aired 11/25/08]

Reese is promoting her upcoming film, Four Christmases, which is out in the US today, November 26.

Reese Witherspoon is shown outside The Late Show last night. Credit: WENN and Bauergriffin