Gwyneth Paltrow Opens Up About Losing Her Father At Age 30: ‘It Split Me Open’
etcanada.comAppearing this week on WYLDE‘s “By the Light of the Moon” podcast with host Holly Willoughby, Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow opened up about her father Bruce Paltrow’s death from throat cancer in 2002. READ MORE: Gwyneth Paltrow ‘Fell In Love’ With Her Daughter’s Name Apple After Chris Martin ‘Came Up’ With It “I lost my dad to cancer when I was 30.
He was only 58,” she recalled. “It gets so abstract as the years go on. You are so far away from the last phone call, the last meal you had with them, the last embrace, your relationship with them is in another realm. “When it first happened I never anticipated that it was possible to have a feeling like that.
It was not in my lexicon of emotions. It was so physical it felt like it split me open.” The grieving process took its toll on Paltrow. “After the funeral I was living in London and I woke up one night in the middle of the night and I thought I was having a heart attack.
The only reason I didn’t call the emergency services was because I didn’t know it was 999 in England! “But I thought I was dying.
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