""I was supposed to do a movie at one point, and it was like right after the conscious uncoupling thing with Chris, and there was a lot of harsh stuff in the press.""
""I think the distributor was like, 'This might be too hot to touch.'""
""Say you had had a really nasty divorce, or your parents had had a really nasty divorce,""
""And then you hear this idea that like, it doesn't have to be done this way. I think the implicit learning is like, 'Oh, fuck. Like, they're saying I did something wrong.'""
Gwyneth Paltrow faced heavy press backlash after the phrase "conscious uncoupling" described her separation from Chris Martin. The negative coverage contributed to a film distributor deciding a project was "too hot to touch," leading to Paltrow losing a role while she was divorcing. The 2014 blog post was widely mocked as painfully precious or pretentious. Paltrow intended the wording to frame the separation as a healthy, amicable end rather than emotional warfare. She acknowledged that the phrasing could make people with nasty divorces feel judged. The divorce finalized in 2016 and Paltrow married Brad Falchuk in 2018.
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