The actress - who ended her relationship with Robbins after 23 years last December - admitted that she felt a sense of responsibility towards the public over how their lives together were presented.
"The nation mourned. I had a lot of people who came up to me and were not as upset as I was but were definitely upset," she told New York magazine.
"I did feel a sense of responsibility, because I knew that people had a certain idea of how I was and who we were. But on your deathbed, it's not really going to matter how those people felt."
