Actress and Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon is surrering from the reccuring nightmare of drowning after watching her mother rescue several children.The actress, who admits she has a fear of water, often wakes up in a panic after dreaming she is drowning. She tells Elle magazine, "(I have) those dreams where you're drowning and nobody's helping you and people are just standing on the bank watching you drown? (It's) not really funny."I remember three occasions where my mother dove into a pool to save a child that was drowning. Watching children by the pool, I have nightmares."Witherspoon was born in New Orleans but was moved around due to her father working for the U.S military.They lived for four years in Gerany before returning to Nashville where she grew up with her grandmother.Her career began in television in movie Wildflower. But it was 1999 where she really made her name starring alongside her husband to be Ryan Phillippe. Later that year she starred in Election, a role which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

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