77th Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals - Beverly Hills, California, U.S., January 5, 2020 - Gwyneth Paltrow.
77th Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals - Beverly Hills, California, U.S., January 5, 2020 - Gwyneth Paltrow. Reuters / MARIO ANZUONI

KEY POINTS

  • Gwyneth Paltrow talked about the wild things she did in the '90s
  • The actress recalled doing cocaine and partying hard in her 20s
  • She was thankful that there were no paparazzi at the time

Gwyneth Paltrow came clean about her wild days during her younger years in the '90s, and she's thankful social media was not around back then.

The 50-year-old actress sat down for an interview on "The Late Late Show With James Corden" Monday and recalled her partying days when she was in her 20s.

"It was great — I mean talk about doing cocaine and not getting caught. Like, you could just be at a bar and be, like, having fun, dance on a table, you could ... no camera phones," she told the titular host of the show.

Aside from not having social media back then, the Manhattan-raised Academy Award winner was also grateful that there were no paparazzi in New York at the time, as per Us Weekly.

"Especially in New York, interestingly enough, there were no paparazzi. You could stumble out of a bar and go home with some rando and no one would know," she added.

It was not the first time Paltrow openly reminisced her wild past. In a 2020 interview with Rob Lowe on his "Literally! With Rob Lowe" podcast, she talked about learning how to perform oral sex with the help of the actor's wife, Sheryl Berkoff.

"I met Sheryl, and I was immediately obsessed with her. First of all, she was dating Keanu Reeves, who was my celebrity crush. And she was so cool. ... [She] taught me how to give a b—wjob, and you know, the classic Sheryl stuff," she said.

Paltrow shared that she first met Berkoff when she was around 15 or 16, adding that the makeup artist knew she was "sneaking cigarettes" on the set. Berkoff would join her smoking session behind the trailer, and they would talk about many things, according to the Hollywood star.

In 2019, the "Shakespeare in Love" star also spoke about having an open mind about drugs as she believed that psychedelics would be the future of mental health treatment.

"I think how psychedelics affect health and mental health and addiction will come more into the mainstream. I mean, there's undeniably some link between being in that state and being connected to some other universal cosmic thing," she told The New York Times at the time.

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Gwyneth Paltrow is pictured on Nov. 15, 2018 in New York City. Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Dior