
Gwyneth Paltrow was taught X-rated move by Rob Lowe's wife as a teen
In the tell-all Gwyneth: A Biography by Amy Odell, it's alleged the actress, 52, got an unexpected education in sex during a visit to one of her mom's TV sets.
Odell claims that while the Oscar winner was in 10th grade, she tagged along to Florida, where her mom, Blythe Danner, was filming the 1990 movie Judgment.
There, young Gwynnie reportedly struck up a friendship with then up-and-coming makeup artist Sheryl Berkoff - who went on to marry Rob Lowe.
The star admitted as much on Lowe's Literally! podcast in July 2020.
She said: 'First of all, she was dating Keanu Reeves, who was my celebrity crush. And she was so cool.
'She knew that I was sneaking cigarettes, and she would come smoke with me behind the trailer.
'And she taught me how to give a blowjob, and you know, all the classic Sheryl stuff.
'And I just worshipped her. I thought she was literally the coolest chick of all time.
'And she was so awesome to me!'
Gwyneth's own charisma drew many of her classmates to her at the Spence, the private girls' school she attended.
In an excerpt of the book given to US Weekly, the head of the middle school at the time, Kate Turley, claims: 'She established herself as an interesting person - someone people wanted to hang out with.
'It was easy for her to make her way. But other students seemed to feel threatened.'
Odell said: 'One classmate recalled, 'Not one person had a doubt that she was going to be famous.' After all, she might spend a weekend with someone like [her godfather] Steven Spielberg. But she was also polarizing.'
One of those polarizing incidents was apparently when Gwyneth, who had inherited her father Bruce Paltrow's bawdy sense of humor, allegedly drew some X-rated art in the school library.
'One day, Spence's rather humorless librarian approached [head of school and Gwyneth's advisor James] Dawson, outraged that a student had drawn, on the partition of a study cubicle, an erect penis.
'She sent all four girls - Gwyneth among them - who had been in the library at the time to Dawson.
'Dawson made an ominous threat: 'All right, folks, this is completely uncalled for and obnoxious, so I'm going to suspend you all and put it on your college record.'
''I didn't do it,' said one girl, who left. The second girl said she didn't have anything to do with it either.
'Down to the third girl and Gwyneth, Dawson doubled down on his ultimatum, prompting the other girl to insist she wasn't responsible and leave.'
Pals: Gwynnie lived with Rob and Sheryl for a while when she first moved to Los Angeles and has remained close to the couple
Biography: Gwyneth: The Biography will be released on July 29
'Dawson now faced just Gwyneth. 'Gwyneth, you drew the erect penis in the library,' he said. 'I'm not really sure what you're talking about,' she said.
'He presented a picture the library had given him of the masterpiece. 'Oh, that penis,' Gwyneth said. 'I wasn't sure what we were talking about".
'Dawson pointed out that the other students had had to suffer through the confrontation with her. 'Come on, where's your sense of humor?'
'He often found her amusing, but replied, 'In the library, are you kidding me?' Gwyneth became annoyed when she had to clean it up.'
Daily Mail has reached out to the actress's representatives for comment.
Gwyneth: The Biography will be released on July 29.
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