Gwyneth Paltrow is slowly coming to terms with her crappy marriage. In recent interviews, it sounds more and more like the veil of snottiness is being lifted, and you can feel Dame Goop begin to show something like… human (peasant) emotion. In last month’s Elle interview, Gwyneth spoke about her marriage in less than glowing terms – go here for the recap. And now in a new interview, Gwyneth is talking about affairs. Keep in mind one thing, though: the writer makes it sound like Gwyneth just started talking about affairs out of the blue, but I think she was discussing infidelity specifically because her character in Contagion, the film she‘s promoting, contracts the deadly virus while having an affair on Matt Damon‘s character.

Gwyneth on romance: “I am a great romantic – but I also think you can be a romantic and a realist.”

On flaws and affairs: “Life is complicated and long and I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs. It’s like we’re flawed – we’re human beings and sometimes you make choices that other people are going to judge. That’s their problem but I really think that the more I live my life the more I learn not to judge people for what they do. I think we’re all trying our best but life is complicated.”

Playing an adulterous wife: “If death by virus was a punishment for extra-marital affairs there would only be three dudes left in this world right now.”

On her family: “I’m lucky – I have a wonderful, blessed life. I have two fantastically delightful children and a very nice husband, so… ” Then she adds, laughing: “Knock on wood.”

More on how she’s the best mother ever: “I think before you have children your focus is on yourself and you think, ‘Oh what am I going to be? Where am I going to live? What am I going to do?’ And then you have children and they and their happiness, safety and security become the focus of your life. I just feel very lucky that I have them because they have completely given me a real life. I still haven’t done a starring role in a movie since I had my daughter because it means too many days away. I can’t do it. So I do good supporting roles, basically.”

Goop is afraid of everything: “We live in an over-populated planet and the farming practices, the way we’re cutting down forests, we’re going to be seeing more of this kind of thing but you can worry or just not worry. You can be smart and if you’re going somewhere where your body is not used to those germs, there are things you can do but I’m not overly paranoid about it. I have lots of fears but I think it’s important to remember the reason we have fear is to keep us alive. But it can also very quickly become an irrational thing so I always try to minimize fear. President Roosevelt said it best – ‘There is nothing to fear but fear itself’ – and it’s true because fear can be so paralyzing and can make you make bad choices.”

On religion: “I don’t believe in religion at all but it’s spiritual. I believe in a divine power and I believe that everything happens for a reason and if it’s your time to go, it’s your time to go.”

The Tracy Anderson Method: “I’m very committed to my Tracy Anderson method. I do it every day – well, I do it five days a week. So I drop the kids at school and I come home, I exercise for an hour and 15 minutes every single day. There’s no fairy dust, there’s no trick – it’s like you do it and it works.”

[From The Daily Telegraph]

The affair part of Goop’s interview could be read as just Gwyneth trying to stand up for her character, of course. But if we extrapolate a deeper meaning… “Life is complicated and long and I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.” Like her husband? Like many of her BFFs? Like Dame Goop herself? I wish Goop would have an affair. And with someone good. I feel like she really, really needs to get laid properly.

Then… “It’s like we’re flawed” – Dame Goop, philosopher. OMG, this is the closest she’s come to admitting that she’s flawed, and she can only do it while using the Royal “We”. “We’re human beings and sometimes you make choices that other people are going to judge.” Gwyneth judges. She judges all the time. And she will judge you for judging her. “That’s their problem but I really think that the more I live my life the more I learn not to judge people for what they do. I think we’re all trying our best but life is complicated.” Wow, she’s growing up! It’s like a Paul-on-the-road-to-Damascus moment: Goop realizes that life is complicated and not everyone can be as perfect as she is.

Oh, and wasn’t Country Strong a lead role? Guess Goop is trying to shove that one under the rug?

Photos courtesy of Fame.