Gwyneth Paltrow has now admitted that “toxic people” worked at her wellness company Goop.
In response to some of the claims made in Amy O’Dell’s biography, Gwyneth, Paltrow told Vogue UK on Tuesday: “That bothers me. ‘Oh, there’s a toxic culture at Goop,'” Paltrow told Vogue UK on Tuesday. I’ve never experienced anything like this before and it drives me crazy. ”
But the brand’s founder and CEO was quick to add: “We certainly had some toxic people. Maybe I didn’t deal with it quickly enough because I was afraid of confrontation.”
She confessed that the toxicity occurred in a “cascading manner” and that she was fully “responsible” for it.
Aside from a few bad apples, the 53-year-old actress claimed that Goop has a “very good culture.”
“This is something I’m very proud of, something I’ve worked hard on, and—” she explained, then paused to think about what she had said.
“Of course I’m going to say, ‘It’s not a toxic culture,'” she told the interviewer, noting that people have different experiences.
“Of course! We’re all human beings who go to work and sometimes we have unresolved issues that come out. People can have bad experiences at work anywhere,” she argued.
Still, the Oscar winner can “guarantee” that his business is made up of “a really dedicated, really good, really supportive, excited team.”
For the unauthorized biography, which hits bookshelves in July, Odell interviewed more than 200 people, not including Paltrow.
After gathering information, O’Dell determined that Paltrow ran a “chaotic and sometimes toxic office culture,” which led to high turnover, The Independent reported at the time.
Employees said they felt overworked and underpaid, and described their bosses as “erratic” and “childish”, and accused them of being “impatient and perfectionists”.
Citing the book, one former employee even said, “I’ve never felt as sick in (their) lives as I did when I was here,” USA Today previously reported.
