Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt were Hollywood’s “It” couple from 1994 until their split in 1997, but they’ve maintained love and respect for each other since the breakup.
“I’m friendly with Brad Pitt,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2020. “I don’t have any really bad blood.”
The duo met on the set of the David Fincher film Se7en in 1994 and started dating soon after. They got engaged in 1996, only a few months before their split.
Paltrow talked to Howard Stern about falling for the Ocean’s Eleven star during a 2015 interview. “He was so gorgeous and sweet. I mean, he was Brad Pitt!” she said at the time, adding that her father, the late director Bruce Paltrow, was “devastated” when they broke up.
Pitt reflected on his relationship with Paltrow’s father during a June 2022 interview with Paltrow herself to promote his involvement with a Goop product, God’s True Cashmere. “I’ll never forget when we were engaged and he [Bruce] came to me one day, his eyes full of tears, and he said, ‘You know, I never really realized what they mean when they say you’re gaining a son. Like, I’m gaining a son,’” Pitt said.
Paltrow was married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin from 2003 to 2016 and share two children: Apple and Moses. She married television writer and director Brad Falchuck in September 2018.
Pitt, meanwhile, was married to Jennifer Aniston from 2000 to 2005 and then started seeing Angelina Jolie that year. He married Jolie, with whom he shares six children, in 2014. The actors split in 2016, and the divorce was finalized in January 2025.
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