Gwyneth Paltrow never expected her marriage to Chris Martin to end.
“I never wanted a divorce,” the 48-year-old actress recently said on the podcast “Anna Faris is Unqualified”.
Paltrow, who shares 16-year-old daughter Apple and 14-year-old son Moses with Martin, believes they would still be together in an ideal world.
“I never, in theory, wanted to marry the father of my children,” she explained, adding, “But that process has taught me more about myself than I could have imagined.”
Paltrow said she was “focused on accountability” after the divorce, which eventually cemented her relationship with now-husband Brad Falchuk, whom she married in 2018.
“I was then able to find the most amazing man and build something I’ve never had before with my husband Brad,” she gushed.
Paltrow previously explained why she and the 44-year-old ‘Coldplay’ rocker couldn’t make it as life partners and decided to proceed with a ‘conscious disconnection’.
“We were very close, although we never really became a couple,” she wrote in an essay for Vogue UK published in August 2020. “We just didn’t quite fit together. There was always a little bit of unrest and unrest.”
Paltrow and Martin rocker were married in 2003 and divorced in 2014, but their divorce was not finalized until 2016. While the pair remain friends, the “Emma” actress has admitted that co-parenting isn’t always easy.
“Some days it’s not as good as it looks,” she said in September 2020. “We also have good days and bad days, but I think it drives towards the same goal of unity and love and what’s best for ( our children). ”
Martin, for his part, has been dating Dakota Johnson since 2018. The 31-year-old “50 Shades of Gray” actress and Paltrow appear to be on good terms and have spent time together several times.