The 'Mortdecai' star says Brad Pitt 'was too good for her' while Ben Affleck 'was not in a good place,' and she dismisses rumor that she disapproved of her ex-husband's new girlfriend.
- Jan 15, 2015
AceShowbiz - Gwyneth Paltrow reflected on her past romances during an interview with Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show. She explained why her relationships with Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck didn't work out. She also commented on her ex-husband Chris Martin's relationship with Jennifer Lawrence.
Paltrow dated Pitt after meeting on the set of their 1995 thriller "Seven". "I definitely fell in love with him," she said. "He was so gorgeous and sweet. I mean, he was Brad Pitt!" When they broke up, "my father was devastated," she admitted. "I was such a kid, I was 22 when we met. It's taken me until 40 to get my head out of my a**. ... I wasn't ready, and he was too good for me." She added, "I didn't know what I was doing."
Paltrow then dated Affleck, but they too split after three years. While the actor got approval from her famous parents, director Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner, he was not as close to them as Pitt to her father. "I think they appreciated how he's super intelligent and he's really talented and funny," she said. "They loved him, but they were okay with us not being together."
"He wasn't in a good place in his life to have a girlfriend," she said. Asked by Stern about her previous comment that the actor "would be better off dating a Scores stripper," she replied, "Well, that was true at the time. But he's settled down and his wife is awesome." She went on to praise Jennifer Garner, "Not only is she beautiful but she's so warm, she cooks, and she's so into her kids and she's great. She's hilarious. I had a girls' dinner and she came over. She's my neighbor. I really like her a lot."
"I think that when you're in your twenties, you can get swept up in [good looks]," she contemplated her past choice of hunky boyfriends. "When you're a kid, you tend to be more shallow and you're also immature, so you think that being with a good looking person validates yourself in some kind of way. It's not true."
The "Mortdecai" actress also set the record straight on the rumors that she was bitter about her ex-husband's relationship with younger actress Lawrence. "Who says I don't approve of Jennifer Lawrence?" she said. "I respect him as the father of my children...It's his decision...He wouldn't be with someone who isn't great."
She insists that she has "a really strong friendship" with the Coldplay frontman after their separation. "We have kids, we're always going to be a family," she explained.
"We laugh and we have fun but there are times when it's really difficult," she said of their marriage. "Things happen and you're like, I'm sure he doesn't want to hang out with me and I don't want to hang out with him but for the sake of the kids, you do it. But you also don't do it all tense. You say, 'I really want to find the love for you and I want to forgive you and I want you to forgive me and let's have some fun as a family.' "
