The accompanying question and answer session for the publication with Full Frontal's Samantha Bee also reveals some interesting titbits about Paltrow, like her unlikely friendship with Beyonce who she says "doesn't make grilled cheese", and the time her late father Bruce thought fame was going to her head following her Oscar win for Shakespeare in Love, so sat her down and told her she was an "asshole".

"I remember when I was maybe 27 years old and kind of at the height of my movie stardom – it was around the time of the Oscar and this and that. I think I was very much believing my own hype, which how could you not?" the mother-of-two, who divorced Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin in May this year, started out.

"I was sitting with my dad, feeling great about my life and everything that was happening, and he was like, 'You know, you're getting a little weird …You're kind of an asshole.' And I was like, 'What the hell?' I was totally devastated.

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"But it turned out to be basically the best thing that ever happened to me. It's the difference between someone who loves you more than anything in the world giving you criticism and getting it from some bitter stranger on the internet. What my dad said to me was the kind of criticism where I was like, 'Oh, my God, I'm on the wrong track.' I'm so grateful to him for doing that. He was such a no-nonsense guy in that sense."