Gwyneth Paltrow isn’t holding a grudge against this A-list star who once slammed her in a 1998 Movieline interview.
The 27-year rift between the 53-year-old actress and Jennifer Lopez was reportedly put to rest for good at the Governors Ball on Nov. 16, according to the Daily Mail.
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“They are doing OK, they are friends,” a source alleged to the outlet. “There is no frost, no bad vibes, they are good.”
The women, who were both linked to Ben Affleck at some point during their lives, weren’t feuding over their love lives; it was something more personal. When they were both rising stars, Lopez didn’t have the nicest things to say about Paltrow in the shockingly candid interview.
Jennifer Lopez at The 16th Governors Awards held at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on November 16, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
“Tell me what she’s been in? I swear to God, I don’t remember anything she was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt than I ever heard about her work,” Lopez said in 1998 to the now-defunct Movieline, claiming that Paltrow was better known for the men she dated than her Hollywood career.
Paltrow proved Lopez wrong and went on to win an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love just one year later. She wasn’t the only famous face criticized by Lopez in that interview. Madonna, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, and Cameron Diaz also faced Lopez’s wrath.
She said of Diaz: “A lucky model who’s been given a lot of opportunities, I just wish she would have done more with. She’s beautiful and has a great presence, though, and in My Best Friend’s Wedding, I thought, ‘When directed, she can be good.’”
And of Ryder: “I was never a big fan of hers. In Hollywood, she’s revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I’ve never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, ‘Oh, I love her.’ She’s cute and talented, though, and I’d like her just for looking like my older sister, Leslie.”
The good news is that the past is the past, and Paltrow was rooting for Lopez when she married Affleck in 2022. “Love is in the air,” she wrote under Lopez and Affleck’s wedding post.
Paltrow was never jealous of Lopez’s on-again, off-again relationship with The Accountant 2 star — she seemed to know he was a difficult person to date after being with him from 1997 until 2000.
“I just think we have a very different sort of value system,” Paltrow told Diane Sawyer in 2003. “Ben makes life tough for himself. He’s got a lot of complications, and you know, he really is a great guy. So I hope he sorts himself out.”
The one thing that has been sorted out is Lopez and Paltrow’s friendship. Per the Daily Mail, they are friendly and will both be honored at The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual Women In Entertainment breakfast gala on Dec. 3 in Beverly Hills. It will be a full-circle moment for both of them.
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