Gwyneth Paltrow was taught X-rated move from A-lister's wife as a teen, bombshell tell-all claims
In the tell-all Gwyneth: A Biography by Amy Odell, it's alleged that the now 52-year-old actress and wellness mogul got an unexpected education in sex during a visit to one of her mom's TV sets.
Odell claims that while the Oscar winner was in 10th grade, she tagged along to Florida, where her mother Blythe Danner was filming the 1990 movie Judgment.
There, young Gwyneth reportedly struck up a friendship with a then up-and-coming makeup artist — Sheryl Berkoff — who would later go on to marry none other than Rob Lowe.
Paltrow admitted as much on Lowe's Literally! podcast in July 2020.
'First of all, she was dating Keanu Reeves, who was my celebrity crush. And she was so cool,' the Shakespeare in Love actress said.
'She knew that I was sneaking cigarettes, and she would come smoke with me behind the trailer. And, she taught me how to give a blow job, and you know, all the classic Sheryl stuff,' she told the actor.
'And I just worshipped her. I thought she was literally the coolest chick of all time. And she was so awesome to me!' Paltrow gushed. The actress would later live with Lowe and Berkoff when she first moved to Los Angeles after dropping out of college to pursue acting.
The teen's own charisma drew many of her fellow classmates to her at the Spence, the private girls school she attended.
An excerpt of the book given to US Weekly, claims 'She established herself as an interesting person — someone people wanted to hang out with,' recalled the head of the middle school at the time, Kate Turley. 'It was easy for her to make her way. But other students seemed to feel threatened.'
Odell said, 'One classmate recalled, 'Not one person had a doubt that she was going to be famous.' After all, she might spend a weekend with someone like [her godfather] Steven Spielberg. But she was also polarizing.'
One of those polarizing incidents was apparently when Paltrow, who had inherited her father Bruce Paltrow's bawdy sense of humor, allegedly drew some X-rated art in the school library.
'One day, Spence's rather humorless librarian approached [head of school and Gwyneth's advisor James] Dawson, outraged that a student had drawn, on the partition of a study cubicle, an erect penis. She sent all four girls — Gwyneth among them — who had been in the library at the time to Dawson,' Odell wrote.
'Dawson made an ominous threat: 'All right, folks, this is completely uncalled for and obnoxious, so I'm going to suspend you all and put it on your college record.' 'I didn't do it,' said one girl, who left. The second girl said she didn't have anything to do with it either.'
'Down to the third girl and Gwyneth, Dawson doubled down on his ultimatum, prompting the other girl to insist she wasn't responsible and leave.'
Paltrow lived with Lowe and Berkoff for a while when she first moved to Los Angeles and has remained close to the couple; Pictured in Los Angeles in December 2015
'Dawson now faced just Gwyneth. 'Gwyneth, you drew the erect penis in the library,' he said. 'I'm not really sure what you're talking about,' she said. He presented a picture the library had given him of the masterpiece. 'Oh, that penis,' Gwyneth said. 'I wasn't sure what we were talking about.''
'Dawson pointed out that the other students had had to suffer through the confrontation with her. 'Come on, where's your sense of humor?' He often found her amusing, but replied, 'In the library, are you kidding me?' Gwyneth became annoyed when she had to clean it up.'
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