Chris Martin Opens Up About Gwyneth Paltrow
Coldplay singer, Chris Martin, has opened up about his split from actress, Gwyneth Paltrow.
He says, “It’s a divorce but it’s a weird one. It’s funny. I don’t think about that word very often: ‘divorce.’ I don’t see it that way. I see it more like you meet someone, you have some time together and things just move through. I’ve lived a lot of life since then.”
Chris says now that they’ve been “uncoupled” for a while, he’s doing better these days. But he admits he’s had a tough time getting over his ex.
He said, “I still wake up down a lot of days. But now I feel like I’ve been given the tools to turn it around. You can come at it very aggressively and blame and blame. Or you can put yourself in the garage, so to speak. Take yourself apart and clean off the bits. Reassemble.”
Coldplay’s manager Phil Harvey confirmed that for about a year Chris was “in pain and struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel.” Phil says, “We were all worried about him—the band, his family. When someone’s really, really low and on their own a lot, as a friend, your mind goes to the worst-case scenario. That period didn’t last for ever, but there was a time when we were all regularly checking in on him, just trying to make sure he wasn’t on his own.”
As for the “breakdown” of his marriage, Chris said, “I wouldn’t use the word ‘breakdown.’ This was more a realization about trying to grow up, basically. If you can’t open yourself up, you can’t appreciate the wonder inside. So, you can be with someone very wonderful, but because of your own issues you cannot let that be celebrated in the right way.”