Hollywood actor Gwyneth Paltrow said she lost a movie role after controversy over the phrase she used to announce her divorce from her ex-husband, singer Chris Martin, "conscious uncoupling."
Paltrow recently appeared on Good Hang and said, "I was set to appear in a film at the time, but immediately after the divorce announcement the distributor said, 'It's too hot an issue right now, we can't touch it,'" recounting how the casting fell through. She added her characteristic wry joke, "I got divorced and I got cut from the project, so it was really perfect timing."
The two announced their split in 2014 using the phrase "conscious uncoupling." The phrase, unfamiliar at the time, was mocked and criticized as new-agey and self-centered, and the controversy spread fiercely online. Paltrow said of this, "I understand that it can be hurtful to people who have gone through difficult divorces," explaining, "People react most strongly when a personally painful spot is touched. That is also human."
Nevertheless, she said she does not regret the choice. Paltrow also told British Vogue recently, "I am still proud that we created a new template for separation." She candidly added, "There were many trial-and-error moments in the process, and I did many things wrong."
Paltrow and Martin have daughter Apple and son Moses, and they have continued co-parenting after the divorce. Martin maintained an amicable relationship to the extent that he attended Paltrow's wedding to producer Brad Falchuk in 2018.
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