Gwyneth Paltrow is addressing Gwyneth: The Biography, Amy Odell’s July book about her life, which she had no involvement in.
In a Wednesday profile with British Vogue, the Oscar winner was asked about the biography, which features over 200 interviews with people she’s crossed paths with. When asked if she’d read the biography, Paltrow replied, “Oh God no,” but noted that her husband, Brad Falchuk, has.
“So my husband flicked through it, just because I was like: ‘What is in this?’” she explained. “He said, ‘It’s as if somebody put in a prompt in ChatGPT and said: mine every Daily Mail article and write a biography about Gwyneth Paltrow.’”
Paltrow refuted the contents of Gwyneth: The Biography, noting that “it was all rubbish, the things that I supposedly said.”
“[Odell] totally missed everything, the truth of who I am, what my impact is. He was like, ‘It’s just bad. It’s really badly written.’ I was like, ‘OK,’” she added. “The stuff that I saw in People magazine, and [other outlets that picked it up], it was all rubbish, the things that I supposedly said.”
The Marty Supreme star also said that she thought the biography was “very sexist,” comparing it to the fact that several men have received biographies written by Walter Isaacson, an accomplished American journalist.
“I think it’s very sexist. I was like, ‘OK, hang on a sec. Why do the men get Walter Isaacson and I get this hack?’ You know?” she said.
Paltrow also addressed allegations of “chaos” in the work environment at her company, Goop.
“That bothers me. ‘Oh, Goop has a toxic culture.’ That drives me insane because we have never had that. Granted we’ve had a couple of toxic people and, because of my fear of confrontation, maybe I didn’t deal with it quickly enough. That does cascade down and I totally take responsibility for that. But we are such a good culture. We are,” she said. “It’s something that I am so proud of and worked so hard on.”
“Of course, I’m going to say: ‘It’s not a toxic culture,’” she continued, to which the reporter suggested that people have different experiences. “Of course! We are all human beings who go to work, sometimes with unresolved stuff and that comes out. People can have bad work experiences anywhere.”
“But I can guarantee if I dropped you into the Goop office in Santa Monica, you’d be like: ‘What the fuck are these people talking about?’ You would see really engaged, really brilliant, highly collaborative teams who are excited,” Paltrow said. “So I don’t like that kind of stuff — it impacts the team.”
