Ione Skye calls out Gwyneth Paltrow for being ‘imply’ to brother Donovan Leitch
Gwyneth Paltrow is being known as a “mean” ex.
Ione Skye isn’t holding again in relation to her ideas on Paltrow’s previous romance together with her brother, Donovan Leitch.
In her new memoir, Say Every little thing, Skye displays on a less-than-ideal trip with the previous couple, revealing that she wasn’t precisely impressed with how Paltrow handled Leitch.
“Vacationing with Dono and his intimidating new girlfriend (yes, that Gwyneth) did not exactly sound relaxing, but anything was more relaxing than living in fear of the next earthquake,” Skye, 54, wrote whereas recalling their 1994 journey to Mexico following the Northridge Earthquake, as per The Every day Mail.
On the time, Paltrow was nonetheless early in her performing profession, starring in movies like Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, lengthy earlier than her Oscar-winning position in Shakespeare in Love.
In the meantime, Leitch spent most of their trip sick in mattress, which, in keeping with Skye, didn’t appear to earn a lot sympathy from Paltrow.
“At breakfast, Dono had distractedly tipped his water glass (he was one of the world’s most distracted people). A few drops had splashed Gwyneth, and she’d snapped, ‘Idiot.’ With a laugh, but still,” Skye recalled.
The second didn’t sit proper with Skye, prompting her to ask her brother privately, “Gwyneth [was] always mean to you like that?” However Leitch, seemingly unfazed, simply laughed it off.
“He was 27 and looking toward the future, to marriage and kids. Gwyneth was only 21 and wasn’t ready for anything too serious,” Skye defined. “Well, at least not yet.”
That romance, nonetheless, didn’t final lengthy.
Simply six months later, Paltrow landed a task in Se7en, the place she met Brad Pitt. The 2 shortly grew to become an merchandise, courting from 1994 to 1997 and even getting engaged earlier than calling it quits.
As for Leitch, it appears he took the breakup in stride—although Skye’s recollections of that Mexico journey stay crystal clear.