Gwyneth Paltrow is not impressed by Amy Odell’s work on Gwyneth: The Biography, which was published in July.
In a new interview, Paltrow is finally speaking out about the biography published by Simon & Schuster earlier this year, in which the Shakespeare in Love star didn’t participate.
Paltrow said she didn’t read the book Odell wrote, drawing from over 200 interviews, but her husband, Brad Falchuk, did.
“So my husband flicked through it, just because I was like: ‘What is in this?’” she told British Vogue. “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 added, “She 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.’” 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.”
On Odell being the author of her biography, Paltrow quipped, “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?”
Isaacson is a journalist who has written biographies on Steven Jobs, Elon Musk, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and more.
Paltrow’s biography by Odell also raised questions about a “toxic” work environment at Goop, which the Oscar-winning actress found problematic.
“That drives me insane because we have never had that,” Paltrow said. “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. It’s something that I am so proud of and worked so hard on.”
She continued, “Of course, I’m going to say: ‘It’s not a toxic culture.’ 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. So I don’t like that kind of stuff – it impacts the team.”
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