Gwyneth Paltrow reflects on some bad behavior she may or may not have participated in in the 1990s.
During a Monday appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, the Oscar-winning actress-turned-wellness-guru admitted there was a time when she wasn’t surrounded by such healthy influences.
Paltrow, 50, joined the show to promote her four-part Audible series The Goop Pursuit, while this year’s Golden Globe nominee Hilary Swank spoke on the Alaska Daily.
“You both grew up in the ’90s, which is having quite a renaissance at the moment — the fashion, the music, what was it like for you two to be so famous at a time when there was no social media, no nothing… . .. what do you remember about that time?” Corden asked the two ladies.
“It was great — I mean, talking about doing cocaine and not getting caught!” Paltrow said with a laugh. “You could just be in a bar having fun, dancing on a table, you could — no camera phones — especially in New York, interestingly, there were no paparazzi. You could stumble out of a bar and walk home with a rando and no one would know.
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Before Paltrow considered living it (possibly) in the 1990s, the two A-listers bonded over their best career hits.
“You won your Oscar in 1999?” Swank, 48, — who is pregnant with twins — said, turning to Paltrow, to which she replied, “I think so.” Swank added that she won hers in 2000 “right after” her, which the couple added prompted to share a high five to cheers from the audience.
“You were famous in the ’90s and I wasn’t,” Swank said, noting that Boys Don’t Cry, the movie that put her on the mainstream map, didn’t come out until 1999.
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Although Paltrow rose to fame in the ’90s (and was engaged to Brad Pitt), she recently said that at 50 she feels better in her own skin than ever.
Ahead of her milestone birthday on September 27, her team came to her with an unconventional idea of how to celebrate. “They said, ‘Let’s get you naked!’ ‘ the Goop founder recalled to PEOPLE at an event in Los Angeles celebrating her partnership with Copper Fit on Oct. 19.
Paltrow posed nude while covered in gold paint. “I feel so lucky to be 50,” she said. “I really freaked out when I turned 40 because I was like, ‘My life is over. I will no longer be attractive and society will no longer want me.’ I really panicked. Turning 50 was the complete opposite. I was like, ‘I’ve never felt better about myself and I don’t care if people find me attractive or not. I love myself.’ It is a good feeling.”
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Since turning 50, Paltrow said she feels even more “confident.”
“There are things that can still upset me and I can get self-doubt, but I think for the most part I know who I am,” she said. “I like who I am. And I know the direction I’m going. It happened with ease.”
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Speaking to PEOPLE, Paltrow also opened up about her happy life at home with her husband of four years, Brad Falchuk, 51, and their children (Paltrow shares daughter Apple, 18, and Moses, 16) with ex-husband Chris Martin, while Falchuk has daughter Isabella , 18, and son Brody, 16, from a previous marriage).
On a typical morning, Paltrow said she and Falchuk would “wake up, meditate, have coffee and read the news.”
“Then our sons who are still at home will wake up and after we get everyone out the door I’ll work out,” she continued. “I either go to Tracy Anderson Studios or to Pilates.”