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Winona Ryder “checked out” of Hollywood after her December 2001 shoplifting arrest and the negative headlines that followed.

While Ryder, 52, has spoken about the arrest before, she reflected on the incident’s impact in a new interview with Esquire, published on Thursday, Aug. 29.

“I checked out,” she told the magazine when asked how she coped after her arrest.

“I think I just checked out.”

The Beetlejuice Beetlejuiceactress was charged with shoplifting clothes worth $5,500 from a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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In December 2001, a year later, she was convicted of grand theft and shoplifting, and sentenced to three years probation, fines and ordered to complete community service. She stepped away from acting and moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco. 

When Ryder returned to Hollywood, the environment was different, she told Esquire.

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