by Gwyneth Paltrow is not happy with the author of her unauthorised biography, deeming writer Amy Odell a “hack” and likening the work to ChatGPT prose.
Speaking with British Vogue, the actor admitted that she had not read Gwyneth: The Biography, which was released in July. However, her husband, Brad Falchuk, did. She shared, “So my husband flicked through it, just because I was like: ‘What is in this? It’s as if somebody put in a prompt in ChatGPT and said: mine every Daily Mail article and write a biography about Gwyneth Paltrow.’”
The Marty Supreme actor added, “She totally missed everything, the truth of who I am, what my impact is. He was like, ‘It’s just bad. It’s really badly written.’ I was like, ‘OK.’” The stuff that I saw in People magazine, and [other outlets], it was all rubbish, the things that I supposedly said.”
Paltrow then referred to Walter Isaacson, who has famously written the biographies of the likes of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Kissinger, and Jennifer Doudna. She said, “It’s very sexist. I was like, ‘Ok, hang on a sec. Why do the men get Walter Isaacson and I get this hack?’ You know?”
The biography didn’t shy away from anything in Paltrow’s history. It covered everything from Paltrow’s childhood to her love life and acting career. It also addressed infamous allegations, such as Paltrow allegedly stealing the Shakespeare in Love script from Winona Ryder.
The book also includes anonymous sources who criticise Paltrow’s company, Goop, deeming her leadership “chaos-inducing. In response, she said, “That bothers me. ‘Oh, Goop has a toxic culture.’ That drives me insane because we have never had that.”
She continued, “Granted we’ve had a couple of toxic people and, because of my fear of confrontation, maybe I didn’t deal with it quickly enough. That does cascade down and I totally take responsibility for that. But we are such a good culture. We are. It’s something that I am so proud of and worked so hard on.”
