Winning an Oscar Award is indeed a great honor for celebrities, and the winners often keep it as a souvenir in their homes. However, that’s not the case with Gwyneth Paltrow. The actress is currently making headlines for using her Academy Award as a doorstop.
While Paltrow has a sour story related to his Oscar win, a close source of hers has claimed that she said that jokingly. However, this excuse isn’t enough to pacify the outraged public, which has been criticizing Paltrow for disrespecting the Oscar Award.
Gwyneth Paltrow is being criticized for using her Oscar trophy as a doorstop
Gwyneth Paltrow is garnering attention in the media for all sorts of wrong reasons. Recently, the actress participated in Vogue’s popular YouTube series 73 Questions, and when the interviewer Joe Sabia remarked on seeing her Oscar trophy lying on her lawn, “What a beautiful Academy Award,” Paltrow responded to it in no time and said, “My doorstop! It works perfectly.”
Stating so, Paltrow became a topic for discussion among internet users who criticized her for disrespecting the Academy Award. Check out the tweets below:
She never deserved it. Nepo baby award
— ◽️ (@learning_to_die) October 10, 2023
Yeah she has no off switch.
— Joel “Bam” Watts (@Bamalam) October 9, 2023
Tell me you have money without telling me you have money
— CFCStocks (@CFCStocks22) October 10, 2023
She doesn’t deserve her awards https://t.co/qXDFfBhaRI
— Jenn (@ooominaj) October 9, 2023
If you have so little respect for an award that better actors go their entire careers without winning, then just return it.
— JimmyT (@JTinTexs) October 9, 2023
Paltrow won the Academy Award in the category of Best Actress for her 1998 romantic drama film Shakespeare in Love.
Gwyneth Paltrow clarified her statement through her representative
After facing severe backlash on social media, Gwyneth Paltrow addressed the issue and clarified her statement through her representative. During an interview with Variety, Paltrow’s representative said that she said so as a joke.
During an interview in 2005, the actress said,
“I keep it tucked away at the back of the bookshelf in my bedroom because it weirds me out. For weeks after I won I kept it in storage… I won’t even put it on the mantlepiece, the thing freaks me out.
For some reason, I haven’t been able to feel really good about it. I just feel sort of embarrassed and it brings up weird, traumatic feelings. It’s associated with a tough time in my life.”
Earlier during an appearance on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast, the actress shared that her Oscar trophy reminds her of a hard phase of her life. She said that her winning moment was soured as at that time her father was seriously ill.
