I have mixed feelings about this Gwyneth Paltrow story. I feel like The Sun (a British rag) is trying to make it seem like “Goop speaks to her father’s spirit, isn’t she CRAZY?” when in reality, I think she just misses her dad. Bruce Paltrow died 10 years ago, and Gwyneth consistently references him in interview after interview, and she even made her cookbook all about the lessons that Bruce gave her. Incidentally, I wonder why Gwyneth seems to negate her mother’s influence in her life – Gwyneth rarely says anything about Blythe Danner. Anyway… Gwyneth seems to have given an exclusive interview to The Sun, which is sketchy because The Sun reported yesterday that Gwyneth is trying to start a bitch-fight with Kate Moss. Why the exclusive?
GWYNETH Paltrow says she chats to her late dad’s wedding ring — as it contains his spirit. The star claims she has been in regular contact with Bruce Paltrow since his death from throat cancer.
Gwyneth, 39, added in an emotional interview: “I always hold on to his wedding ring. I ask it questions, I feel like it keeps me safe. I really sense the energy of his soul, I don’t think that evaporates. I feel my dad, I still feel his love, I still speak to him and I still love him.”
TV and film director Bruce died in Rome in 2002 while celebrating his daughter’s 30th birthday.
Gwyneth, who won the best actress Oscar for Shakespeare In Love in 1998, blames his death at 58 on smoking. But she says it had a positive effect by turning her into a fitness freak.
She added: “Half the reason my life is good and has real, true value is that he died. I’d obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death.”
Gwyneth now has a strict exercise and yoga regime, avoids carbs and sticks to a diet of grains, fruit and veg that matches her blood type.
When Bruce became ill she tried to get him on healthy food like gluten-free noodles — but he said it tasted like newspaper.
Her Coldplay star hubby Chris Martin dedicated a song to Bruce on his X&Y album in 2005.
In 2006 Gwyneth claimed the couple’s London home was haunted by 19th-century classical musician Adolphus White, who died there.
[From The Sun]
I don’t think it’s weird to speak to your late father’s spirit. Am I alone in that? Eh. I’m not going to bash her for this. She likes to remember him, she likes to reflect, so just let her. I will say that in true Gwyneth fashion, she makes her father’s death all about her. But that’s a given. It’s all about what his death taught HER, what she learned, how devastated she was and is. Once again, where’s Blythe Danner in all of this? Where’s Gwyneth’s brother Jake? Is that a question only a peasant would ask?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
oh so now she’s crazy too.
Yet, she still speaks to us through her ass.
Go figure.
She eats fruits and veggies that match her blood type? Sounds like bullshit to me.
I don’t blame her at all. Sounds like she had a close relationship with her Dad while he was alive. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to let that go completely. And the Blythe Danner thing I can understand too. Mother-daughter relationships can get so complicated. Maybe that is why she doesn’t talk about her publicly much
And aren’t grains and fruits and veggies still carbs, even if they “match” your blood type? ; )
yes they are and fruits have an awful lot of sugar – most low/slow carb diets limit them
if she going to position herself as such a health guru she should learn about that stuff or just say she avoids refined/processed foods
“Half the reason my life is good and has real, true value is that he died. I’d obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death.”
If I was her father, wherever his soul rests, that statement would piss me off.
What in the ever evolving fuck, i skipped that sentence obviously while trying to read through dame poop’s inane blather without losing my sanity but oh god the nerve of her! what loving daughter would say this upon the passing of her parent? she is disgusting! does she hear herself? apparently not, as somebody else noted, her head is firmly attached to her rearend so all she talks about is poop (literally and figuratively)
Considering she is an Oscar winner she should have said it more coherently what she meant. I think she meant that because her father died from cancer caused by smoking, his death has made her more aware of being healthy. That is what she means I think when she said he gave me more from his death.
its normal i can conceive it. My grandfather died almost 10 years ago and my mum still talks bout him all the time she says they communicate and i don’t question it whatsoever. Who am i to?
Honestly the one thing that surprised me bout this story is that Gwyneth has a brother. i did not know that
Fermez votre bouche Goop, your head is so firmly entrenched in your own rear end you can’t keep from talking s**t
+1 doesn’t seem to adequately show how great this comment is
this.
She looks good in that header picture. I am on the cusp with that talking to her dad stuff. It just seems that she is bringing this up because of her cookbook.
I don’t talk to my parent’s wedding rings-my sisters have them-but I do talk to their ashes on occasion. I don’t think the ashes contain their spirits, but in some odd way it’s comforting to talk to the ashes.
she’s too old and scrawny to wear things so low-cut.
as for talking to her father’s spirit, meh. i don’t find it odd. the people we love who die are always with us in some way or other. as for her house being haunted? it can’t just be some peasanty annonymous ghost; oh no. it has to be a famous musician.
she even name-drops ghosts.
so true, name dropping ghosts now.
always has to be about goop and how freaking fab she (thinks she) is.
She’s was a “daddy’s girl”. Nothing wrong with that. But remember, too, that her father called her a combination of Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly.
Puh-leeze.
He praised her to the skies and helped supply the entitlement and pretentiousness that fills her head.
Her husband even bears a slight resemblance to her father. Ick.
Her attachment is so strong with her father, that I feel justified in assuming that Blythe did the best she could, but the odds were stacked against her. (Blythe did compromise her career to have GP, didn’t she?–28 and just getting started in the movies when she was pregnant–Maybe I’m wrong. If not, irony alert.)
Anyone else love Blythe? I feel as if there isn’t any GOOP on her hands.
I really like Blythe. Good actress, classy lady. It’s a shame Gwyneth doesn’t take after her mother.
After seeing Blythe a lot lately, I am a fan. Prettier and more human than Goopy.
I’ve always loved Blythe and wondered how she ended up raising such a pompous @ss of a kid
Off topic Kaiser but I thought that you would cover Cate Blanchett’s unshopped photo for The Economist. Beautiful it is. I know you look for any reason to write about her.
Because she has such a thin frame, I don’t like her profile shots, because it gives her a bubble head. But, still, she looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Why am I not surprised Gwyneth has custody of her father’s wedding ring? I can’t decide whether to feel sorry for Blythe or not – was she a great mother with a weirdo for a daughter, or did she encourage Gwyneth’s pretension?
Well, on Chelsea lately she said Blythe’s mother (her grandmother) tried to turn Blythe against Gwen. She called the grandmother the C word.
So maybe the grandmother thought she was a brat and got away with it because of her father.
Her cousins from her father side (I know one of them) can’t stand her. But one of them tried to be an actress and it didn’t work out.
The only thing I don’t find strange about her is that she talks to her late father. Many people feel their deceased loved ones spirits, or hope they do. It is comforting to believe they are looking after us.
No use for the rest of her babble.
goop’s always been extremely jealous of her mom. always had daddy issues. lots of tension there.
i totally believe you resurrect the deceased when you think of them.
Her father seemed to have my daughter is a princess relationship. HE is the one – who said she had “IT” and
let her quit college.
He was Jewish (to be clear I am not to being anti-semtic and I am jewish though not practicing) and he had a very common – the sun rises and sets with my daughter attitude.
I don’t/ didn’t have that with my father because he died when I was a toddler, but I have witnessed among my friends. IMO and it somewhat a given in the jewish culture – Jewish American Princess stereotype is linked to the father and daughter relationship. Plus, she is first born in her family. The only girl to boot.
I think she is a Daddy’s girl through and through.
Bruce died or got ill on her birthday trip to Italy. Bythe was not even there.
A lot of good points here.
He was Jewish (to be clear I am not to being anti-semtic and I am jewish though not practicing) and he had a very common – the sun rises and sets with my daughter attitude.
I sooooo got ripped off, my parents were of the “my son is the mess is the messiah” stream of Jewish thought but, since I was not the JAP they kinda wanted me to be, I was never treated like the princess. Luckily, my folks lived long enough to realize how much they’d despise what they thought their dream daughter would be when my brother married her – they learned to appreciate me before they dies, so I guess I can’t complain. . .too much
Yeah, I have friends with brothers who have had said the same thing. The messiah thing happens to …
She did not give an exclusive to the Sun, these are old interviews cobbled together with rumors. And Kaiser, I Always read and see interviews where she praises, and speaks highly of her mother, seems like you want there to be drama where there is none.
I can’t fault her for missing her father, they were close and losing anyone like that is very hard.
But I find it odd that she, not Blythe, has his ring.
Hearing that his death caused her to be a fitness freak makes a lot of sense – not that what she’s doing is correct or healthy or logical, but I kind of get where it’s coming from now. Sadly she seems obsessed with it – be healthy, but don’t let it control every aspect of your life.
you;re right, she does seem obsessed to the point there is rarely an interview in which she doesn’t reference him or his death. My mom died 3.5 years ago and my dad died about 6 months ago (on the 3rd anniversary of my mom’s death) and while I do talk about them (and, occasionally, to them) I’m not as sanguine about it and, except when it’s relevant to a conversation, my references to them aren’t about their deaths but about what a bunch of whack jobs they were (my brother and I have some crazy stories about them). She just always comes of as having some sort of martyr complex or something
I understand how she feels. My precious Grandmother, who was like a mom to me, always said we die two deaths. The first is when the body dies and the second is the last time your name is ever spoken. She died two years ago in February from cancer and I speak to her and of her constantly. I will make sure my son knows how wonfmderful she was so that he will speak her name long after I am gone.
I met the man I would marry right before my father became ill and passed away; when we became engaged my mother gave him my father’s wedding ring. She has her wedding ring that he gave her; she didn’t need to keep his as well. I think it’s wonderful that Blythe gave Gwyneth a token of Bruce that clearly means so much to her. I don’t understand all the hate for her, especially about how she is dealing with her father’s death of all things.
Totally agree. No one can judge how long another person’s grieving should take, or how they should grieve. Grief is grief. I lost my dad a few years before Bruce Paltrow died, and whenever Gwyneth talks about her dad is the *only* time I can relate to her. I dont have a bath in my bedroom or $10,000 wallpaper, or bathe in goat milk or whatever else she goops on about, but the pain of losing a parent, and building a life post loss to honour their memory… I relate to that, and I respect her right to grieve the way she needs to.
Why on earth would Goop have her dad’s wedding ring? Surely that should have been left to the most important woman in his life – his wife. This just makes their relationship seem sick and creepy (as did her father telling Goop that she should see Paris with him because he was the only guy who would love her forever, or something equally revolting …). I can’t imagine giving my kids my husband’s wedding ring – they’re not married to him, I am!