14 DAY TRIAL // Gwyneth Paltrow will be back on the big screen with “Mortdecai” with Johnny Depp, and she’s already kicked off the promo tour for the film. She sat down for a heart-to-heart with Howard Stern the other day, and among other stuff, she also talked about two of her most famous exes, Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck.
If that’s not enough to whet your appetite, she also talks about ageing, about being ridiculed for coming up with the term “conscious uncoupling” for “divorce” (she didn’t, by the way), about stealing the role for “Shakespeare in Love” from Winona Ryder, her kids, and the alleged romance between estranged husband Chris Martin and “Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence.
Brad and Ben
Before she met, fell in love and then married Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, Gwyneth was linked to some of the hottest leading men in showbiz, most notably Pitt and Affleck. Both are now married men and have started their own families, and enough time has passed for Gwyneth to be comfortable to open that can of worms.
As you can hear from the audio below (*Please note that some discretion is recommended for profanity), she goes out of her way to not turn the discussion into that.
“I was such a kid,” she says of her relationship with Pitt. “I was 22 when we met and it’s taken me until 40 to get my head out of my [butt]. I think I was a kid and I wasn’t ready. He was just too good for me. I honestly think I was too young and didn’t know what I was doing.”
It sounds like she was either at fault for the breakup or the one who initiated it. Rumors at the time claimed she cheated on him, so chances are it was the former.
As for Ben Affleck, he too was an amazing guy, but he was simply not in a good place to be around of.
“He wasn’t in a good place in his life to have a girlfriend. I’m friends with him still. He’s settled down and his wife is awesome. Not only is she beautiful, but she’s so warm and she cooks and she’s so into her kids. She’s hilarious. I really like her a lot,” Gwyneth says.
Gwyneth’s parents, including her late father, loved Brad but hated Ben, so this probably explains why she’s speaking in comparatively better terms of Pitt.
No holds barred interview
As noted above, Gwyneth also talks about many other things in this interview, stuff that she would probably not touch upon, say, on a TV appearance or in a magazine interview. But Howard Stern has a way of asking the hard-hitting questions, so those who agree to be on his radio show know better than to expect to be handled with kid gloves.
She talks about handling online criticism and how she’s no longer bothered by the mean things people say about her, and of never imagining that the term “conscious uncoupling” would get attached to her name for all eternity because of the divorce announcement, when it had been around for a very long time before she put it on her official website.
Speaking of the divorce, Stern also asks her if there’s any truth to the report that she “hates” Jennifer Lawrence for dating Chris: there isn’t. If Chris and Jennifer were really dating, she’d be ok with it, because he’s his own man.
You can listen to the full interview below.
