- Gwyneth Paltrow had a crush one someone else when she was with Brad Pitt, a new biography claims.
- “Gwyneth expressed doubts…that Pitt was right for her,” an excerpt from Amy Odell’s Gwyneth: The Biography reads.
- Paltrow and Pitt were together for three years before splitting in 1997.
Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly had a wandering eye when she was dating Brad Pitt. According to Amy Odell’s upcoming book Gwyneth: The Biography, she had “doubts” about her relationship with the Fight Club star.
While Paltrow was working on the 1996 film Emma, she reportedly said that she was crushing on another famous movie star.
Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow in 1995.
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“Gwyneth expressed doubts to one crew member that Pitt was right for her, and admitted that she had a crush on Hugh Grant,” an excerpt from the book published by People reads.
Paltrow and Pitt began dating in 1994 before getting engaged two years later, though they called things off in 1997.
“Brad and I had very different upbringings,” Paltrow once said in an interview. “So when we go to restaurants and order caviar, I have to say to Brad, ‘This is beluga and this is osetra.'”
Hugh Grant in 1995.
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After Emma‘s release, Paltrow’s relationship was still on the rocks, and she apparently “cried about Pitt multiple times.”
“He wanted to be with her but seemed to feel threatened by her success and all the attention she received,” Odell writes.
That’s when Paltrow sought help from her close friend, makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin: “[Aucoin’s] advice to Gwyneth was frank, ‘You really need to end this.'”
Paltrow and Pitt never “publicly gave a concrete reason for their breakup,” but according to the book, “two people recalled a rumor about it stemming from Gwyneth cheating on Pitt [with costar John Hannah] while she was filming Sliding Doors. She told Howard Stern in 2015: ‘I wasn’t ready [for marriage], and he was too good for me.’”
Gwyneth: The Biography is out July 29.
Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow in 1997.
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