Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t want to go public with her and Chris Martin’s “conscious uncoupling”. Instead, she hoped to pretend the pair were still married.
While rumours of the pair’s marriage breakdown were circulating long before they announced their split, Gwyneth desperately wanted to keep their separation a secret. But her Coldplay rocker husband, 37, put his foot down, insisting they go public.
“It was his idea to announce the split,” a source told the New York Post. “They had drifted apart, and there was no chance they’d get back together, so he felt it was wrong to keep pretending.”
Gwyneth, 41, announced the separation on her blog calling it a “conscious uncoupling”.
“It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate,” she wrote.
“We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate.”
The pair, who avoided being photographed together in public for most of their decade-long marriage, made the unusual move of posing happily for public photos in the lead-up to their split.
It is believed their relationship broke down following Gwyneth’s alleged links to Elle Macpherson’s billionaire husband, real-estate mogul Jeffrey Soffer, and entertainment lawyer Kevin Yorn.
