Gwyneth Paltrow Strikes Back at Martha Stewarts Harsh Words
Gwyneth Paltrow is not about to let lifestyle maven Martha Stewart have the last word. She’s responded to the convicted felon’s scathing comments about her introduction into the lifestyle world, which were far from kind. Last month, Stewart discussed Paltrow in an interview with The Edit, saying that “She just needs to be quiet. She’s a movie star. If she were confident in her acting, she wouldn’t be trying to be Martha Stewart.” Ouch. They say that you should kill ‘em with kindness, and that’s what the mother of two did when she responded to Stewart’s harsh words and criticism of her lifestyle debut.
“No one has ever said anything bad about me before, so I’m shocked and devastated. I’ll try to recover,” the actress joked. “If I’m really honest, I’m so psyched that she sees us as competition. I’m so psyched. I really am. At this point in my life, I don’t take it personally,” she explained on her website, Goop.
Of course, she also gets another bit of the last word with Stewart, considering she just announced that she’s hired a new employee for the Goop brand; Lisa Gersh, former CEO and President of Martha Stewart Living.
It’s a double whammy for Stewart, who not only went out of her way to speak harshly about a fellow celebrity rather than simply say she has no comment or taking the high road by wishing her the best of luck in her business endeavors. Now she’s being called out as someone who is nervous about the competition and she’s seeing her former top dog take a position with the company she just blasted in an interview. We all know you don’t have to like everyone, but it is nicer to take the high road. At the end of the day, this battle was won by Paltrow.
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