Gwyneth Paltrow Speaks About "Saving" Woman On 9/11

When it was revealed that Gwyneth Paltrow saved a woman's life on September 11, 2001 by almost hitting her with her Mercedes SUV on 7th Avenue, thus making her miss her train to work at the World Trade Center, the nation came together by promising to add Sliding Doors to their Netflix cue. At the Venice Film Festival, Gwyneth spoke for the first time about her newly discovered hero status: "I was on the way home…and a girl was jaywalking across the street and we kind of both stopped at the same time." She didn't even use her paparazzi-grade cowcatcher—how magnanimous!

The woman Paltrow "saved" has said, "If I had made the train, I would have been at my desk" when the planes hit the twin towers, but Paltrow wonders about "all of the people who had experiences like that that day," but with the non-famous heroes. "I am very humbly happy to be a part of her story." No word on whether the gallant Dave Henderson will ever be honored: Henderson heroically sat on Sally Thompson's headphones shortly before she could listen to Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends on a city bus.

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By Christopher Robbins in Arts & Entertainment on September 6, 2011 6:39 PM

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Pierce Inverarity

Update: Paltrow saved another woman this past weekend from possibly being shot at the West Indian Parade by having her security detail choke-hold Beatrice Mukapabama(pictured below at last year's West Indian Parade) at a Whole Foods for cutting the line in front of Paltrow at the seafood counter.

Said Paltrow, " I was just buying my usual Friday afternoon half-pound of tuna steak to be seared in Wild Forest Black Truffle Oil , when I noticed a large dark woman cut in line. I had my people take care of it. I am very glad to be part of saving someone from the West Indian Day parade this year. It felt great to do my part."

Cat1982

you are unquestionably a douche. I generally cannot STAND Paltrow bc she is entitled and pretentious but you make connections and assumptions that simply fail to exist. It's almost mindboggling how awful your ability to think in a linear way is. Unless this was supposed to be a joke, but given the tone of most of your humorless posts, I'm going to assume that is not the case.

Pierce Inverarity

It might have been a joke, yes. Or, you have no sense of humor. Or, some combination of the two. There's no telling!

aspiringrapper

What a self-serving twit.

Lisa Hernandez

Nobody in the city jaywalks -- it's called WALKING.

J_Go

A line of people or things waiting their turn is a queue.

Tim Schreier

Oddly, I ran into a friend of mine on the street one day. I had a Do Not Walk signal, so I stopped to talk with him. He told me how his kids were, job, etc. Just as he finished up, he asked me a question, a truck went by, having the green light and all... Had I not stopped to answer his question, God knows I could have been smooshed by that truck... I should write and thank him...

Bambi Blue

I'm not a huge Paltrow fan, but... isn't this story about how some woman is calling her a hero and she doesn't really understand it but is happy 'to be a part of her story'? I'm not sure what the purpose of the article is other than to hate on Paltrow for some reason. I usually quite like the Gothamist, but why the weird anti-celebrity slant? Aren't they, you know, part of your bread and butter?