Meg Ryan has said that she is glad she is less famous than what she used to be, because it means she can travel without anybody noticing her.

The actress says that ever since she hooked up with Russell Crowe, causing her marriage with Dennis Quaid to end, she had bad press.

She says, “I think it’s great being less famous. I blame the fact I had, shall we say, a meeting with Russell Crowe. I had never seen or heard such bad press about me here and it’s been great in a funny kind of way and, you know, a good thing too because I now realise the world does not revolve around me.”

Ryan’s new movie, The Women which also stars Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith and Bette Midler is released on September 12.