The longstanding rumors of a feud between Gwyneth Paltrow and Winona Ryder are being addressed in a new book.
Amy Odell’s upcoming book, Gwyneth: The Biography, seemingly reveals how the 52-year-old Goop entrepreneur allegedly took the 1998 Shakespeare in Love role from the 53-year-old Stranger Things star.
According to the story, Gwyneth initially turned down the part of Viola de Lesseps without reading the entire script.
An excerpt from the book claims that Winona, whose name was “bandied about for the role,” never received “an offer,” but she “wanted to do the part.”
An interview with disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein in the biography further claimed that Gwyneth actually “recommended” Winona for the role.
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“After a story about Gwyneth allegedly stealing the script from Winona’s coffee table reached the media, Gwyneth told friends that Ryder had started the rumor, and insisted she’d received the script through her agent,” the excerpt reads, via People.
Though the two had been good friends in Hollywood, rumors have been swirling for years that Shakespeare in Love was the reason for a falling out between the two actresses by 1998. While Winona hasn’t addressed it, Gwyneth spoke to their apparent falling out during a 2015 interview.
She referred to the alleged script-stealing drama as an “urban myth” while appearing on The Howard Stern Show at the time.
“I swear to God I did not, I’m raising my right hand on the Bible,” she said at the time. “I swear to God.”
In a 2009 Goop newsletter, Gwyneth spoke candidly about a past friendship, which some people felt was in reference to Winona.
“Back in the day, I had a ‘frenemy’ who, as it turned out, was pretty hell-bent on taking me down. This person really did what they could to hurt me,” she wrote at the time. “I was deeply upset, I was angry, I was all of those things you feel when you find out that someone you thought you liked was venomous and dangerous. I restrained myself from fighting back.”
She added, “I tried to take the high road. But one day I heard that something unfortunate and humiliating had happened to this person. And my reaction was deep relief and … happiness. There went the high road.”
Gwyneth: The Biography will be released on July 29.
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Source: justjared.com