Of her run in with the law, Ryder said, "I didn't have this tremendous sense of guilt, because I hadn't hurt anyone. Had I physically harmed someone or caused harm to a human being, I think it would have been an entirely different experience… The attention was what was embarrassing. It was the December after Sept. 11…So much attention was being paid to me, when we had just been attacked, and there was all this really important news going on."

When she was arrested for the theft of $5,500 worth of goods from Saks Fifth Avenue, Winona had a number of prescription painkillers in her purse. She explained the situation leading up to getting those prescriptions as follows: "Two months prior to that, I broke my arm in two places, and the doctor…was giving me a lot of stuff (Oxycodone, not to be confused with OxyContin), and I was taking it at first to get through the pain. And then there was this weird point when you don't know if you are in pain but you're taking it. Have you ever taken painkillers? It isn't a reckless (state), like you're out of your head. It's just confusion."

Since her very public trial, Ryder has moved to San Francisco to be close to her parents. She said that "No one [in my family] ever got angry with me. Concerned, yes, but not concerned with a drug problem or anything. Because after that night I pretty much didn't ever. If you are ever arrested, you can't ever do that again."

Winona is now thinking about starting her own family. She told Vogue, "I think I assumed I would be married and have a kid by the age I am now. It kind of occurred to me for the first time last year: I actually want to go on and have kids." But the star of three upcoming films says, "You know how people ask, 'Who is the love of your life?' God, I hope I haven't met that person yet, in a way, because I'm single. I hope I haven't had that, since that would be sad."