Gwyneth Paltrow Says The Public Turned On Her After Her Oscar Win

“I felt a real pivot on that night because I felt, like, up until that moment, everybody was kind of rooting for me in a way,” Paltrow told Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper. “And then, when I won, it was, like, too much, and I could feel a real turn.”

Paltrow does maintain that her somewhat shocking win over stiff competition like Meryl Streep in One True Thing and Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth was not solely to blame for the sudden shift in public opinion. The actor turned mogul believes that her emotional acceptance speech also played a factor in the public’s coldness towards her, especially with the Brits. “I remember I was working in England a lot at the time…and I remember the British press being so horrible to me because I cried,” Paltrow said. “I was 26, I cried, and people were so mean about it.”

Wearing a pink satin gown, Paltrow thanked the other nominees in her category—her “friend” Blanchett, “the greatest one who ever lived” Streep, Fernanda Montenegro, and Emily Watson—the studio Miramax (and its now disgraced and incarcerated president Harvey Weinstein), Shakespeare In Love’s director John Madden, her costar Joseph Fiennes, and her agent Rick Kurtzman. She didn’t begin to cry until she thanked her family, specifically her mother: actress Blythe Danner. “I could not have been able to play this role if I had not understood love of a tremendous magnitude. And, for that, I thank my family—my mother, Blythe Danner, whom I love more than anything.”