Gwyneth Paltrow revealed British press poorly received her Oscars win in 1999.
Speaking on the Call Her Daddy podcast, the Sevenstar recounted the negative tide against her, “I felt a real pivot on that night because I felt like up until that moment everybody was kind of rooting for me in a way. And then when I won, it was like too much, and I could feel a real turn.”
The 50-year-old also revealed her father was battling cancer when the media was hunting her.
“He was really debilitated,” Paltrow continued. “It was just this totally overwhelming moment. And, you know, I was 26. I cried and people were so mean about it and I just thought, ‘Wow there’s this big energy shift that’s happening. I think I’m going to have to learn to be less openhearted and much more protective of myself and filter people out better’.”
“I remember I was working in England… and I remember the British press being so horrible to me because I cried. And they didn’t necessarily know that my father was dying of cancer,” she added.
Paltrow bagged the Oscar for Best Actress for the 1998 film Shakespeare In Love role.