Gwyneth gets over those old birthday blues at last

GWYNETH Paltrow has revealed that she chose to have her wedding close to her birthday to try to ‘reframe’ the day after previously associating it with her father’s death. The actress, 46, organised her wedding to Brad Falchuk two days after her birthday last year, after losing her father while celebrating her birthday in Rome in 2002.

She confessed that for years after his death she would fall into a deep depression around the anniversary of his passing and was determined to change the way she viewed it.

Recalling the time of his death on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Gwyneth said: ‘He had had throat cancer and we then were on a trip to Italy for my 30th birthday. He wasn’t feeling well, and then he got double pneumonia and he just sort of died on me, on the trip...

‘Just after my birthday. For years, I would go into kind of, the deepest depression of all time around my birthday, and then I thought, “I’ve gotta re-frame this somehow. My father would not want this for me”.’

‘So my birthday is September 27th, and this past September, I got married on the 29th September.’

Gwyneth wanted her father to be part of her and Brad’s big day so they decided to get married in the garden of her home, where her father’s ashes are scattered.

She shared: ‘His ashes are buried under this beautiful tree at my house, and we got married there, like, right near my dad – kinda on my dad, which sounds weird!’

And the actress, pictured with Brad, admits she misses her father every day as she praised him for always being so ‘observant and so deeply supportive’.