Gwyneth Paltrow jokes about using her Oscar as doorstop: "It works perfectly"

Actor Gwyneth Paltrow created a stir on the internet when she said during an interview, that she uses her 1999 Oscars trophy as a doorstopper. 

In a recent video for Vogue’s “73 Questions” series, Paltrow’s Academy Award was seen propping open a door outside her Hamptons home.

In the video, which was filmed over the summer at her home in the Hamptons, Paltrow led interviewer Joe Sabia to her garden. As the pair passed through a doorway, the camera paused on an Oscar on the ground, propping a door open.

“What a beautiful Academy Award,” interviewer Joe Sabia said in the video, to which Paltrow replied, “My doorstop. It works perfectly!”

Later, a representative for Gwyneth Paltrow told Variety “Of course, it’s a joke.”

Paltrow, 51, won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1999 for her role in Shakespeare in Love as the Bard’s fictional lover, Viola de Lesseps.

Recalling the time she won the Oscar, the actor said on an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast that it led to an unhealthy identity crisis. 

“Once I won the Oscar, it put me into a bit of an identity crisis, because if you win the biggest prize, like what are you supposed to do? And where are you supposed to go?” Paltrow said. 

“It was hard the amount of attention that you receive on a night like that and the weeks following, it’s so disorienting. And frankly, really unhealthy. I was like, ‘This is crazy. I don’t know what to do, I don’t know which way is up.’ It was a lot. Not that I would give it back or anything, it was an amazing experience, but it kind of called a lot of things into question for me.”