Paltrow and Pitt began dating in 1994, after meeting while filming “Seven.”

Gwyneth Paltrow recalls feeling ‘shame’ after she and Brad Pitt ended their engagement

Paltrow and Pitt began dating in 1994, after meeting while filming “Seven.”

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Raechal Shewfelt

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- Gwyneth Paltrow says she felt “shame” after she and Brad Pitt ended their engagement.

- The *Seven* costars met while making the 1995 film, and they were engaged in 1996.

- Paltrow also went through a very public breakup with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin years later.

The end of Gwyneth Paltrow’s romance with Brad Pitt left her reeling.

The actors met in 1994, while making the movie *Seven*, and dated for several years. They were even engaged in 1996, but by 1997, they had broken up.

“I was so bummed out when we broke up, and I think that the press aspect and all that makes it feel larger than life in a way,” Paltrow said on the latest episode of the *Friends Keep Secrets* podcast. “You have to carry this faux important, cultural importance piece, and it’s like this extra burden and this extra almost shame that it didn’t work out.”

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She reiterated that the split was “hard.” Paltrow said on the podcast, as she has in previous comments, that she still has love for the *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood* star.

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“He’s a great guy, and I love him to this day,” she said of Pitt. “He’s a friend.”

The *Sliding Doors *actress, who turns 54 this month, defended Pitt in a 2003 interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer on *Primetime*.

“I was the architect of my own misery,” Paltrow said. “I just made a big mess out of it,” she added, noting that she was lucky it lasted at all, “especially when I was such a mess.”

Paltrow and Pitt both went on to have even higher-profile breakups.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt in 1997.

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For Pitt, they were with future wives Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie.

For her part, Paltrow famously popularized the term “conscious uncoupling” when she and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin spit in 2014.

The Oscar winner married producer Brad Falchuk in 2018.

Pitt, who’s currently dating Ines de Ramon, confirmed his love for his ex in a June 2022 interview on her Goop website.

“It’s lovely to have you as a friend now,” he told Paltrow. “And I do love you.”

Listen to Paltrow’s full podcast episode above.

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