Gwyneth Paltrow has once again gone to bat against rumors she’s beefing with Meghan Markle.
“You know what I won’t be at this point in my life? I won’t be a pawn in some drummed-up, triangulation of women feud for your f–king clickbait,” the actress-turned-lifestyle maven, 52, declared in Thursday’s episode of “The World’s First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster” when asked about the feud speculation.
Paltrow added that she wants no part of the woman-against-woman narrative, demanding, “Leave us out of it. Don’t do that. I will not stand for that.”
The Goop founder insisted she wants to see her fellow actress-turned-businesswoman succeed.
“I wish Meghan nothing but the best. Like, it’s so great what she’s doing. I’m proud of her,” Paltrow said, noting that “every woman deserves to go into anything they want to do.”
This is neither the first nor the second time the Oscar winner has shut down the idea that she and Markle — who recently launched her As Ever lifestyle brand and stars in a similarly themed Netflix series, “With Love, Meghan” — are at odds.
“I genuinely do not understand this at all whatsoever,” Paltrow told her Instagram followers in a video last month.
She then panned the camera over to show the Duchess of Sussex, 43, sitting in her kitchen and asked, “Do you understand this?”
Markle, who was snacking on something, simply shrugged her shoulders to dismiss the claim.
The topic also came up in a mid-March interview, which prompted Paltrow to explain that there is “more than enough room” for everyone in the lifestyle space.
“I was raised to see other women as friends, not foes. I think there’s always more than enough to go around,” she told Vanity Fair.
“Everybody deserves an attempt at everything that they want to try,” she stressed before revealing her mother Blythe Danner’s wise words to her as a teen: “Another woman is never your competition.”
Perhaps unknowingly, Paltrow previously convinced many Instagram users that she was mocking Markle’s show when she posted a video of herself making breakfast at home in her pajamas.
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