Gwyneth Paltrow Says Her Relationship with Mom Blythe Danner 'Shifted' After She Tried MDMA Therapy

Mar. 15, 2025

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Gwyneth Paltrowis sharing how MDMA helped her relationship with her famous motherBlythe Danner.

On the March 12 episode of her Goop podcast, Paltrow, 52, interviewed friend and author Amy Griffin about her new memoirThe Tell(out now from The Dial Press), which details how MDMA therapy helped her confront past trauma.

On the podcast, the author said that hearing about Paltrow’s positive experiences with MDMA several years ago is what led her to try psychedelic-assisted therapy herself.

“I looked over at you, and I said… what’s different about you?” Griffin recounts. “There was this peace about you. There was this calmness, and I always thought of you as a calm person anyway, but I think that there was this this knowing, this calmness. There was just a shift because I hadn’t seen you in several months. And you said ‘I’ve just had some experiences. I’ve really been going inward and and doing some work.'”

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Paltrow then revealed how MDMA helped improve upon her relationship with Danner, 82.

“That was when I told you that I had done the therapeutic MDMA with the therapist… and I remember because you also said, ‘Oh, your relationship with your mom is so gentle.’ Remember, you’re like, ‘What, what shifted? You know, you’re not annoyed with your mom anymore.’ And I was like, well, I had this incredible experience, and I told you about it.”

In 2020, Paltrow firstrevealed on Netflix’sThe Goop Labthatshe’d taken MDMA with then-boyfriend-now-husbandBrad Falchuk. The actress described the assisted therapy as “a very, very emotional experience.

Paltrow recently showed how close she is with theMeet the Parentsactress in aTikTokposted on April 25 where she revealed she keeps a bottle of her mother’s perfume in her bathroom.

source: people.com