Reese Witherspoon has recalled how she "grieved" when her older children left home to attend university. Reese shares her older children with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe and also has a 12-year-old son named Tennessee from her marriage to Jim Toth. Or when they're older, you're just so worried all the time that they're gonna get in a car accident or they're gonna come home or there's gonna be drugs involved." "Then one day, it's kind of like, if you've done your job, you did the right things, they go. But you know you did the right things," she added.