Becoming an empty nester hit Gwyneth Paltrow, 53, hard.
“I was really struggling with it when they left,” she said of her two kids with Coldplay front man Chris Martin, on Sunday’s “Talk Easy with Sam Fragaso.” Apple Martin is 21, and Moses Martin is 19.
Paltrow added that it felt like a kind of divorce: “I divorced my house. I divorced Los Angeles.”
The “Marty Supreme” star described the experience of her kids leaving the family home as “a big reckoning,” which forced her to let go of part of her identity.
“When you’re a parent, it’s like you’re orienting everything around the child, right? And everything is around their emotional needs, their soccer practice, their dinner, you know. It’s so relentless, and it’s so intense. And when they go, it’s like it forces this major reorientation,” she said.
“Marty Supreme,” which was released in theatres on Christmas Day, is the first movie Paltrow has acted in since 2019. When Fragoso asked if her decision to take the job was linked to her becoming an empty nester, she said, “very much so.”
“I panicked in a sense. I just felt like I don’t know, I don’t know where I want to live. I don’t know who I am. I don’t know what I want to do,” she said.
Martin and Paltrow divorced in 2015, having announced their separation, which they famously called a “conscious uncoupling” in a viral blog post in 2014. The Goop founder married her current husband, screenwriter Brad Falchuk, in 2018.
Paltrow has largely kept her children out of the spotlight, but Apple became the face of the London women’s wear brand Self-Portrait in September 2025. Moses has been signed to Interscope Records, the music label that represents Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, and Kendrick Lamar, and released his first single with his band People I’ve Met, on January 12, 2026.
As she adjusts to this new chapter, Paltrow told Fragso that she is working on “paying attention to myself and how I actually feel.”
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