Gwyneth Paltrow gave a health update as she revealed that she turned to alcohol amid the devastating Los Angeles fires that began in January.
The Oscar winner, 52 – who recently paid a special tribute to ex Chris Martin for his 48th birthday – got candid about her worsening menopause symptoms as the result of drinking ‘every night.’
During Tuesday’s episode of her Goop podcast, the actress shared: ‘I’m really in the thick of it right now, so I’m all over the place.
‘But I noticed my symptoms are, like, pretty well under control unless, you know, in January when the fires were happening in L.A. I’ve, like, used alcohol for its purpose.’
When the deadly wildfires broke out throughout Southern California on January 7, Paltrow said, ‘I think I drank every night. I was medicating.
‘Normally, now at this point, I don’t drink a lot at all. Maybe I’ll have one drink a week,’ Gwyneth said, but added her symptoms ‘were completely out of control. It was the first time I really noticed, like, causation in that way.’
Gwyneth Paltrow, 52, gave a health update as she revealed that she turned to alcohol amid the devastating Los Angeles fires that began in January; seen in February in L.A.
Paltrow explained that she has been having trouble with insomnia – an issue she did not have before menopause.
‘I’ve always been a real sleeper,’ the Hollywood star shared, but adding that after menopause, ‘I went through a particularly bad time with it.
‘There were nights where my anxiety – like, I just thought it meant, “Oh, you’re not gonna be able to sleep because you don’t have enough progesterone or whatever.”‘
The mother-of-two continued, ‘I would just wake up [and] I would get crushed with anxiety, which I’ve never had in my life.
‘And I would lie in bed thinking about every mistake I’ve ever made, every person’s feelings I ever hurt, like, every bad, you know – And I would be up, like, for six hours. It was crazy. I feel like hopefully I’m coming out the other side.’
Guest Dr. Mary Clare Haver joined in on the episode and explained, ‘In perimenopause, we call it the zone of hormonal chaos. It’s all over the place. It is completely unpredictable, and our brains hate chaos.
