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Gwyneth Paltrow Recalls London Heart Scare, Says 999 Confusion Kept Her From Calling Ambulance

She recounts the episode in new podcast interviews linking it to profound grief following her father's 2002 death.

Overview

  • On The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter, Paltrow said she woke in a London hotel thinking she was having a heart attack but did not call for help because she knew 911, not the UK's 999.
  • She said portraying Sylvia Plath in the 2003 film Sylvia helped her process her loss and "kind of saved my life."
  • Paltrow noted that listening to Sigur Rós and sticking to work routines provided an outlet for overwhelming emotions.
  • She told Amy Poehler's Good Hang that backlash to the term "consciously uncoupling" led a distributor to drop her from a planned film job.
  • The disclosures come from recent podcast appearances and are retrospective personal accounts rather than a new health incident.