Ryan Gosling consoled fans after Rachel McAdams split

[Honey]

Ryan Gosling says his Notebook costar Rachel McAdams was "one of the great loves of my life" – but when the couple split several months ago, he ended up consoling fans.

"Women are mad at me," Gosling, 26, tells GQ magazine in its November issue. "A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, 'How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?'"

Gosling, who has been mum about the split up until now, continues, "I feel like I want to give people hugs, they seem so sad. Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs! Instead, we're consoling everybody else."

The actor and McAdams, 31, began dating shortly after wrapping the romantic film, which won them an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, but he says their relationship was not like the characters they portrayed.

"God bless The Notebook," Gosling says. "It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life. But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that."

Of their actual breakup, he will only say, "The only thing I remember is we both went down swingin' and we called it a draw."

Gosling, who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his 2006 film Half Nelson, currently stars in the quirky comedy, Lars and the Real Girl.

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[Voodoo Child]

I know many will disagree with me but she is gorgeous and he is so fug he makes my skin crawl.

[Bijoux]

Um...OVER HERE! Over HERE!

Ryan, I'll console you

Lots of hugs waiting for you, darling!

[Lily]

See, I think she's annoying, and he's adorable.

Also, one of the greatest loves of your life, Ryan? Really? Honey, you're, like, twelve years old.

[louiswinthorpe111]

I think she's very cute, but she has a mole on her neck that drives me crazy. I just want to stare at it during every movie she's in.

He's ok. He's not HOT, like Paul Walker....

[nycgirl]

well I think she's a great actress and really gorgeous, and he sort of annoys me.......I don't find him that great looking, but I can see how others would.

[memebot]

Suddenly I'm inconsolable over their break-up!!

Hold me, Ryan. Hold me.

[purple rain]

Anyone who gets upset over a celebrity break up needs to get a life and stop living vicariously through others.

[Thalia]

Geez, I like Ryan! He speaks about the break-up in a very sensitive, cool way which I respect. He also rocks the lanky unconventionally handsome but totally charismatic indie boy look to a tee (however, he should leave the moustache to Tom Selleck).

[yoyoma]

^I think the mustache is for a movie role...

[greysfang]

The moustache and weight gain is for the movie The Lovely Bones. Ryan is a bit young to be playing the lead role, so he is "aging" and uglifying himself.

[CRAZY 'N' NUTS]

These two were cute together. Oh well shit happens

[nwgirl]

He's not conventionally good looking, but there is something about him that I find really, really sexy. His character in Numbers, with Sandra Bullock, while creepy, was pretty damn sexy. He has like that low-lying sex appeal or something.

[memebot]

^^Agree!

For me it was his role in Half Nelson; his character was totally messed up but he somehow made it look hawt. He's sexy as hell, mostly and especially when he's not trying.

[greysfang]

Yes, exactly! He;s sort of has that Adrien Brody thing, not conventionally handsome, but oh so sexy. Its like a low-level hum that only women and the occasional waiter can hear.