Though Gwyneth Paltrow now preaches peace and wellness, her previous reveals a much more ruthless facet.

A brand new unauthorized biography reveals a darker previous crammed with ambition, icy grudges, and savage nicknames geared toward Hollywood friends.

From her notorious fallout with Winona Ryder to uncomfortable movie units, the guide uncovers beforehand unknown scandals about Paltrow.

Paltrow’s profession has usually appeared like a fairytale. Born to Hollywood royalty actress Blythe Danner and director Bruce Paltrow and goddaughter to Steven Spielberg, she appeared destined for stardom.

Nevertheless, as an excerpt from Amy Odell’s “Gwyneth: The Biography” obtained by the Each day Mail reveals, that golden picture was constructed on icy ambition, burned bridges, and a stunning disregard for these in her means.

Lengthy earlier than founding Goop, Paltrow was a teen navigating elite prep colleges and movie units. At Spence, a $68,000-a-year non-public college in New York, classmates stated she was “polarizing,” with one recalling, “Everybody was afraid of her and in awe of her and wished to be her.”

She was so adept at tearing others down that she as soon as fat-shamed a classmate with a loaded query, “Isn’t it attention-grabbing how totally different folks’s our bodies are?”

Even in childhood, Odell writes that Paltrow knew how one can use her allure and identify to get what she wished.

Spielberg gave her one in every of her first movie roles in “Hook,” and Michael Douglas helped get her into the College of California after she was rejected by Vassar. But, Paltrow dropped out inside a yr, chasing fame on her personal phrases.

One of many guide’s most stunning revelations entails Paltrow’s former greatest buddy, Winona Ryder.

The 2 actresses have been inseparable within the late ’90s, even sharing a New York residence. Nevertheless, issues rapidly took a darkish flip, main Paltrow to offer Ryder a brutal nickname.

Based on the biography, their friendship started to unravel after Ryder had a combat with Matt Damon, her then-boyfriend and shut buddy of Paltrow’s boyfriend, Ben Affleck. Ryder allegedly claimed she had been robbed twice after leaving the residence, however Paltrow wasn’t shopping for it.

“Damon consoled her however Gwyneth and Affleck believed Ryder fabricated the robberies as a ploy for consideration (there’s no proof of this),” the guide states. “Gwyneth was irritated that Damon could not see it.”

From there, issues solely obtained worse. As Odell places it, “Her friendship with Ryder would solely deteriorate additional, and Gwyneth gave her the nickname ‘V-gina Ryder.’”

Regardless of Damon being “variety to her associates,” Paltrow soured on him too. This led to the implosion of the Hollywood double-date energy dynamic involving Affleck and Paltrow, in addition to Damon and Ryder.

One other casualty of Gwyneth Paltrow’s social circles was English actress Minnie Driver.

Paltrow reportedly disliked Driver’s “fake British aristocracy,” regardless of organizing her 1997 birthday celebration throughout a photograph shoot in Los Angeles. Behind Driver’s again, Gwyneth rolled her eyes and “mimed vomiting by placing her finger in her mouth,” the guide claims.

She referred to Driver as an “air-kiss buddy” and appeared irritated that others couldn’t see by means of what she noticed as a pretend persona.

Even Matt Damon’s previous with Driver didn’t escape Paltrow’s scrutiny. When Driver claimed she realized Damon dumped her solely after he introduced he was single on “The Oprah Winfrey Present,” Paltrow disagreed.

“Gwyneth understandably wished to take her boyfriend’s buddy’s facet however she additionally appeared to bitter on Driver,” Odell writes.

Paltrow’s capacity to chop folks off coldly turns into a recurring theme in Odell’s work. “I could be imply. I can ice folks out and I can positively harbor revenge,” Paltrow as soon as admitted herself per The Telegraph throughout an interview with British Vogue.

Odell did not cease at Paltrow’s early profession. The guide additionally particulars how she micromanages her model, tightly controls her picture, and instills concern in employees.

Whereas researching the biography, Odell claims that even former Goop workers have been “extra cautious than Anna Wintour’s ex-staffers.”

Some have been “terrified” of speaking on the document. Others feared retaliation, with one supply revealing that Paltrow had “taken motion” towards individuals who crossed her.

Although Goop presents a curated picture of therapeutic crystals, natural skincare, and inside peace, its founder isn’t afraid to burn bridges or wield energy with precision.

“She was extra uncomfortable than she let on,” stated a Miramax insider about working along with her.