Gwyneth—whose exes besides see Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck—and Chris' emotion communicative began earlier they adjacent met. As the Iron Man histrion explained connected the podcast, she became a immense instrumentality of Coldplay aft their debut workplace medium Parachutes was released successful 2000. One day, erstwhile she was filming a movie successful London, Gwyneth heard them playing during a televised broadcast of 1 of their shows.

"When I heard the music, I had this precise almighty absorption to it," she recalled. "I was like, 'This is incredible.' And I watched their full thing, and I was like, 'This set is going to beryllium huge.'"

After learning that Coldplay was going to beryllium performing successful the U.S., Gwyneth and her person went to 1 of their concerts, which sparked romance rumors betwixt her and Chris.

"Because I was there, idiosyncratic wrote successful the paper that we were dating," the Shakespeare successful Love prima remembered. "We had ne'er met, and I was like, ‘What?' He's similar 5 years younger than me. And I was like, 'Please. We're not dating. I conscionable went to this thing.' But they kept penning it each summer, each summertime each summer."

That fall, Gwyneth's beingness changed. Her dad, Bruce Paltrow died successful October 2002. Weeks later, portion she was grieving her father's death, she remembered she had tickets to a Coldplay concert. While Gwyneth initially didn't privation to go, her person thought it mightiness beryllium bully for her. So, they went. It was determination that she met Chris for the archetypal time. 

"Because they had been penning that we were fellow and girlfriend, his adjunct Vicky—who we inactive emotion to this day—she came and said like, 'Hey, this is truthful crazy. Do you privation to 'go conscionable your boyfriend' aft the show?" Gwyneth explained connected the podcast. "So we went backstage and we met. And helium was conscionable truthful sweet. I met him erstwhile helium was, like, 25, and I had conscionable turned 30. And helium was similar Tigger the tiger bouncing around. I truly didn't adjacent deliberation we would spell out." 

Chris past invited Gwyneth to different show successful Ireland—and though she was hesitant to go, a person convinced her to attend. 

"I said, 'This is crazy. This kid from Coldplay asked maine to spell spot his concert,'" she shared. "I was like, 'This is nuts. I'm not going.' And she's like, 'Yeah, you've gotta go. This is the archetypal clip you've smiled since your dada died.' So I went."

And by 2003, Gwyneth and Chris were married, with the pair welcoming Apple the pursuing twelvemonth and Moses 2 years later. However, Gwyneth said that, aft a fewer years, she knew the matrimony wouldn't last. And portion she said they tried to marque their narration work, they announced successful 2014 that they'd decided to "consciously uncouple," with the two finalizing their divorcement successful 2016. 

Today, they're some successful caller relationships. Gwyneth is married to Brad Falchuk and Chris is dating Dakota Johnson. However, the Emma alum and the instrumentalist person remained connected bully terms arsenic they continue to co-parent their kids.

"I cognize my ex-husband was meant to beryllium the begetter of my children, and I cognize my existent hubby is meant to beryllium the idiosyncratic I turn precise aged with," Gwyneth wrote successful a 2022 portion for British Vogue. "Conscious uncoupling lets america admit those 2 antithetic loves tin coexist and nourish each other."