Gwyneth Paltrow Recalls Brad Pitt Engagement as 'Love at First Sight'

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AI GeneratedThe speaker discusses her early relationship and engagement with Brad Pitt, which began after they were cast in a movie together. She reflects on the age gap, the sudden surge of fame she experienced both as an actress and as his partner, and the eventual end of their engagement due to her youth and their demanding work schedules.
Okay, so you get cast in the movie with Brad.
So I get cast in the movie with Brad,
and I met him on set,
and we had kind of a love at first sight thing.
It was pretty awesome.
It was really fun.
Did you go home and tell your parents?
Because he was so much older,
and also famous.
I don't know.
I thought, like, friends.
Yeah, but were you like,
ooh, he's like an older Hollywood boy?
No, because he was so beautiful,
and I think he was 31, and I was 22.
So it probably wasn't, I don't know.
He's so, he's hot.
Was this like your first public relationship?
Yeah.
Yeah, because I, it's sort of like,
and I had movies coming out,
so I was sort of getting famous on my own,
and I was famous as his girlfriend,
and it was like a very, you know.
Yeah, was it like overwhelming at the beginning?
It was overwhelming.
I'm right for saying that you,
he proposed, didn't he?
Yes, we were engaged.
He did?
Oh, you were engaged?
You were engaged to Brad Pitt?
We were engaged, yeah.
I don't know anything.
Like, you could have so many other relationships
that I didn't know about.
All I knew is,
and I just found out the Brad Pitt thing,
and you, like, I think one of you guys,
who was the person who said?
Me, I think.
Yeah, she said it.
I heard it, I heard you on a podcast,
which I knew you guys had dated,
but I did not, you should tell them the story,
because didn't, if you care to talk about it,
I feel like it's probably annoying
to keep talking about this thing in your 20s.
I don't know any of it, it's not annoying to me.
But you must have had to, you broke,
because you didn't get married, right?
We didn't get married, no.
So you had to break up the engagement.
We, it was.
Conscious uncoupling.
Yeah, that was your first go at it.
I don't know, I was just young,
and you know, we were working all over
the different parts of the world, and.
