Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't think people will 'understand' her until she's 'dead'

The 52-year-old actress and wellness guru is baffled by the "narrative" surrounding her persona because she often has "no idea" why people have drawn certain conclusions about her.

Speaking in a teaser clip for her appearance on “The Cutting Room Floor” podcast, she said, “No one will understand me until I’m dead. I have never created my own narrative. I’m aware that that exists.”

“But I have had a really strange life in this respect,” Paltrow continued. “Like, imagine being an actual person and know that people are characterizing you in a way and you can’t understand how they arrived at that narrative. I have no idea who people are talking about. I’ve lived for many decades now with this avatar that’s, like, projected on very, very strongly, and I don’t know why.”

The Goop founder admitted she used to try to fight those perceptions but has since focused on letting it go.

"You want to say, ‘But this is not true,’ or, ‘I never said that,’ but lately I’ve been really trying to almost meditate on this idea of, if you could get to the stage where you could really let go of trying to correct misperception, what could that do?”

Paltrow also noted that social media has changed the way people relate to celebrities.

“So, in the 90s there was all this mystery around movie stars and that was sort of part of the machine, I think, in a lot of ways,” she said. "In the olden days movie stars were supposed to be mysterious and you were given these tidbits about their lives and it was so exciting and titillating. And then that bred this whole tabloid thing that reached an apex before Instagram.

“Instagram kind of dismantled a lot of that business model. There was this pursuit of images and information to sort of humanize celebrities, and then we segued into this bizarre new media milieu where everybody was putting their life in front. But for me, because I’m introverted, it’s been uncomfortable.”