Gwyneth Paltrow says Brad Falchuk, Chris Martin are friends ‘because of conscious uncoupling’

Don’t knock it til ya try it! One year into her marriage to Brad Falchuk, Gwyneth Paltrow says Brad and her ex-husband, Chris Martin, are friends “because of conscious uncoupling,” the terms she and Chris used when they announced their split in 2014. “Chris and I really thought we would really love to do this in a way that we remain a family, even though we’re not a couple,” she explained while appearing on an Advertising Week panel in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 26, according to Us Weekly. “People freaked out. They were like, ‘This is nuts. This is insane. We hate you,'” she recalled. “At this point, it’s something that even though people were like, ‘What is this? We don’t get it,’ a lot of pushback, now it’s something that people are like, ‘Oh wait. Yeah, this might be a good thing to do,'” she told the audience. “Again, people come up to me all the time and they [say], ‘If you hadn’t written that, I never would have taken the approach of forgiveness and trying to put down spite and actively doing that for the sake of my children,’ et cetera.” Gwyneth and Brad recently announced they were finally moving in together, having put cohabitation off a year for the sake of their respective teenaged children.