{"id":2093466,"date":"2025-10-15T17:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2093466"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:39:49","slug":"gwyneth-paltrow-admits-she-had-toxic-people-working-for-her-at-goop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gwyneth-paltrow-admits-she-had-toxic-people-working-for-her-at-goop\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwyneth Paltrow admits she had &#8216;toxic people&#8217; working for her at Goop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gwyneth Paltrow is now admitting she had \u201ctoxic people\u201d working for her at her wellness company, Goop.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to some of the claims <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/07\/29\/style\/amy-odell-gwyneth-paltrow-biography-gwyneth-is-out-now\/\">made in Amy Odell\u2019s \u201cGwyneth\u201d biography<\/a>, Paltrow <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/article\/gwyneth-paltrow-british-vogue-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Vogue UK<\/a> on Tuesday, \u201cThat bothers me. \u2018Oh, Goop has a toxic culture.\u2019 That drives me insane because we have never had that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the brand\u2019s founder and CEO quickly added, \u201cGranted, we\u2019ve had a couple of toxic people, and because of my fear of confrontation, maybe I didn\u2019t deal with it quickly enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Gwyneth Paltrow is now admitting she had \u201ctoxic people\u201d working for her at her wellness company, Goop. <span class=\"credit\">Venetia Scott\/ British Vogue<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Responding to some of the claims made in Amy Odell\u2019s \u201cGwyneth\u201d biography, Paltrow told Vogue UK on Tuesday, \u201cThat bothers me. \u2018Oh, Goop has a toxic culture.\u2019 That drives me insane because we have never had that.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Venetia Scott\/ British Vogue<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>She confessed that that toxicity did \u201ccascade down,\u201d and she took total \u201cresponsibility for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the few bad apples, the actress, 53, insisted that Goop has \u201csuch a good culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that I am so proud of and worked so hard on and \u2013\u201d she explained before pausing to reflect on what she was saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course I\u2019m going to say, \u2018It\u2019s not a toxic culture,&#8217;\u201d she told the interviewer, who noted that people have different experiences.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>However, the brand\u2019s founder and CEO quickly added, \u201cGranted, we\u2019ve had a couple of toxic people, and because of my fear of confrontation, maybe I didn\u2019t deal with it quickly enough.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Venetia Scott\/ British Vogue<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>She confessed that that toxicity did \u201ccascade down,\u201d and she took total \u201cresponsibility for that.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Venetia Scott\/ British Vogue<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOf course! We are all human beings who go to work, sometimes with unresolved stuff, and that comes out. People can have bad work experiences anywhere,\u201d she argued.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Oscar winner can \u201cguarantee\u201d that her business is made up of \u201creally engaged, really brilliant, highly collaborative teams who are excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For her unauthorized biography, which hit bookshelves in July, Odell interviewed over 200 people, not including Paltrow.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cOf course I\u2019m going to say, \u2018It\u2019s not a toxic culture,&#8217;\u201d the actress told the interviewer. <span class=\"credit\">Venetia Scott\/ British Vogue<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>After interviewing current and former employees, Odell determined that Paltrow allegedly ran \u201ca chaotic and sometimes toxic office culture\u201d that led to a high turnover rate. <span class=\"credit\">Venetia Scott\/ British Vogue<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After gathering her information, Odell determined that Paltrow allegedly ran \u201ca chaotic and sometimes toxic office culture\u201d that led to a high turnover rate, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/americas\/gwyneth-paltrow-biography-goop-b2798378.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Independent reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Employees felt overworked and underpaid, describing their boss as \u201cerratic\u201d and \u201cchildish\u201d while calling out her alleged \u201cimpatience and perfectionism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One former staffer even said they \u201cnever felt less well in [their] life than during [their] time there,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/books\/2025\/07\/29\/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-biography\/85404384007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today previously reported<\/a>, citing the book.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwyneth Paltrow is now admitting she had \u201ctoxic people\u201d working for her at her wellness company, Goop. Responding to some of the claims made in Amy Odell\u2019s \u201cGwyneth\u201d biography, Paltrow told Vogue UK on Tuesday, \u201cThat bothers me. \u2018Oh, Goop has a toxic culture.\u2019 That drives me insane because we have never had that.\u201d However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2093467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[129082,344976,24003,369277,307951,21912],"class_list":["post-2093466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-businesses","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-news","tag-goop","tag-gwyneth-paltrow","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gwyneth-Paltrow-admits-she-had-toxic-people-working-for-her.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093468,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093466\/revisions\/2093468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}