That poor little statuette isn’t even allowed inside the house.
“My doorstop,” she says nonchalantly of the Academy Award.
“It works perfectly.”

Gwyneth Paltrow wins Best Actress at the 1999 Oscars for ‘Shakespeare in Love’.TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images
“For weeks after I won I kept it in storage,” she said.
“I won’t even put it on the mantlepiece, the thing freaks me out.”
Earlier this year, she elaborated during a guest appearance on Alex Cooper’sCall Her Daddypodcast.
“He was really debilitated,“Paltrow saidof her father, Bruce Paltrow,who died in 2002.
“It was just this totally overwhelming moment.”
She continued: “You know, I was 26.
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