Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow opened up about how she is still on good terms with her exes. On Friday the Goop founder talked about her past relationships on Instagram Story, answering questions from her fans during a Q&A session.
When a fan asked if the Oscar winner stayed friends with former flames, Paltrow said “pretty much.”
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“I really believe in conscious uncoupling,” the 50-year-old explained, according to Yahoo. “When you spend meaningful time with someone, it’s nice to have it morph into friendship. I don’t want to have bad blood with anyone, ever (if I can help it.)”
‘I really believe in conscious uncoupling,’ the Shakespeare in Love star explained, referencing the term she popularized during her divorce from Chris Martin in 2014.
Coined in 2009 by licensed marriage and family therapist and author Katherine Woodward Thomas, “conscious uncoupling” is now a popular term.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe alum first used the phrase when she announced her split from ex-husband Chris Martin in a heartfelt personal essay written for Vogue.
Paltrow and Martin wed in 2003 and share two children, Apple, now 18, and Moses, now 16. She said she discovered the term “conscious uncoupling” during their break up before their eventual divorce in 2016.
Gwyneth Paltrow said she suffered “brutal” backlash over the term during a 2019 podcast episode of Armchair Expert, also shared that the phrase was a “way to circumvent [the pain of divorce] and go directly to the point where we’re friends, and we remember what we loved about each other, and constantly acknowledge that we created these incredible human beings together.”
In 2018, Gwyneth Paltrow married producer and Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk. She has been previously romantically linked to several Hollywood stars, including Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck and Luke Wilson.
In October, the star opened up in an interview with Entertainment Tonight about how her husband feels about her friendships with her exes, including her recently rekindling her bond with Pitt, whom she dated in the ’90s and got engaged to in 1996, before calling it quits later that year.
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Calling Falchuk the “least judgmental” and the “most secure man in our relationship,” Paltrow shared that she thinks her husband “respects” her friendships.
“Probably one of the things that [Falchuk] likes about me is that I believe in conscious uncoupling, whether you’re uncoupling with a co-worker, a spouse, a boyfriend, I really do believe that if you’ve invested in somebody ― and of course there are exceptions ― to amputate that relationship [shows that] maybe you’re not then fully letting the full lesson reveal itself and the healing happen,” Gwyneth Paltrow said. “So even though sometimes it can be uncomfortable, I think it’s nice to work through it and reconnect with the value that that person brought to your life.”