Gwyneth Paltrow Tried to Talk Herself Out of Having a Crush on Brad Pitt
In 1994, Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt became the It Couple of the mid-1990s. After meeting on the set of the film Seven, they started a relationship that nearly ended in marriage. Paltrow said that before they started dating, though, she tried to talk herself out of her crush. She thought it would be a bad idea to begin a relationship with someone like him.
Gwyneth Paltrow thought she was an ‘idiot’ for having a crush on Brad Pitt
When Paltrow and Pitt met, he was a bigger star than her. Immediately, she took note of the way people behaved around him.
“Women get crazy over Brad,” she told the LA Times. “You’ve never seen anything like it. Women are like, ‘I will marry him.’ And I’m not talking about 14-year-old girls–28-year-old women. They’re obsessed.”
Pitt began to flirt with Paltrow when they met, but she remained oblivious to his advances.
“It would never occur to me to flirt with somebody, even if I had a crush on them,” she said. “I wouldn’t know if somebody was flirting with me. When Brad and I met, he says, it was obvious that he liked me and that I was an idiot. But I had no idea. I thought he was just really friendly.”
She began to develop feelings for him, which she tried to squash.
“[T]hen I started getting a crush on him. I’m like, ‘Are you insane? You can’t get a crush on Brad Pitt. Get hold of yourself,’” she said. “It’s funny to think back into that mind now. Now it’s so different.”
She shared what their relationship was like
Pitt and Paltrow were a high-profile couple, but she said their relationship was very lowkey. She didn’t want to give too many details about their lives, but she said they were a normal couple.
“I don’t understand what people expect,” she said. “I’m not going to sit down with a writer and divulge intimate and private things. I’m in a very happy relationship. We’re the best of friends. We go out on a date together. We go to the movies. I make dinner. We go out to dinner. We have friends over. Beyond that, I don’t know what else people expect me to say.”
Gwyneth Paltrow blamed herself for her breakup with Brad Pitt
Pitt proposed to Paltrow in 1996. Just six months into their engagement, however, they announced that they had parted ways. Neither spoke much about the end of their relationship in the immediate aftermath, but Paltrow reflected on it a few years later.
“I’m so lucky that I spent time with Brad, somebody who was such a good person!” she said in a 2003 interview with ABC News. “Especially when I was, like, such a mess.”
Without going too far into detail, Paltrow said she felt that the end of the relationship was her fault.
“My kind of internal stuff really tripped up that whole relationship,” she said. “And I felt really responsible, and also like I was the architect of my own misery … I just made a big mess out of it.”
The former couple remained friendly in the years after their split.
