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Gwyneth Paltrow and Chelsea Handler Discuss Their Mean Grandmothers (VIDEO)

by Jason Hughes, posted Apr 26th 2011 3:16AM
Gwyneth Paltrow, 'Chelsea Handler'Chelsea Handler and Gwyneth Paltrow are now sisters of war. Sure, it was a domestic war, but both of them suffered under the wrath of a German grandmother nicknamed 'Mutti.' They shared their battle scars on 'Chelsea Lately' (Weeknights, 11PM ET on E!).

"My Mutti was a real b****," Handler said.

"My Mutti was a real ****," Paltrow followed, selecting a much harsher expletive.

"I don't know what it is about that name, but they should stop giving it to people," Handler said.

Paltrow talked about how her grandmother hated her and even tried to convince her mother to turn against her. "It didn't work because I have a great mother."

Ultimately, Paltrow decided her Mutti "must not have been very happy and she must have had a lot of pain." Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Paltrow was ever able to make amends with her grandmother, but at least she now has someone who went through a similar experience to talk to about it.

Watch the full interview here:

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bdhery

I too had a mean Mother, she use to beat me with a belt about two inches wide, and leave whelps all over me. I am not 80, and the scars are still there. When she died, did not go to her funeral, 2700 miles away.

She use to tell me that she and my Dad lived with my Dad's mother, and that she was a very mean old lady. She died in 1925, so I never knew her.

April 28 2011 at 2:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LUKIES GRANDMA

IS THIS A "GERMAN"THING ,DOES THAT TRAIT CARRY ONTO THEIR DAUGHTERS ,HAVE A SIMILAR ISSUE AND HEARD THAT THEY ALL HAVE BAD ATTITUDES

April 26 2011 at 3:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
amarleync

At almost 60 years of age, I am still suffering from the emotional scars that my paternal grandmother left with me because of her incessant partiatially shown toward my two older and younger sisters. The reason she did that was because my mother divorced my father (the first divorce in the family) and I showed alegience to my mother. As a requirement, my sisters' and I would have to spend summers with my grandparents in the country....very desolate, remote "stick" country. They were old, didn't drive, only had outdoor bathroom facilities.....very, very rural and backward. In a 4 room house with no air conditioning and heat only in the living room, my grandparents shared the same bedroom, in separate double beds side by side. In the winter when it was cold, my grandmother would take my two sisters and sleep in the living room on the sofabed while I was forced to sleep in her double ALONE.....and cold! When it was hot and all the windows in the living room were covered with plastic, she would sleep in her bed in the bedroom with my two sisters while I had to sleep in the hot living room. When once I protested when they were sleepiing in the living room, she put two chairs together for me to sleep in. While at a very young age my mother left my father and my grandmother came to stay with us for a while. After begging, she allowed me to go to a movie with other neighborhood kids to see "The Invisible Man." I was very young and when I came back I was very scared and begged her to be able to sleep with her and my sisters that night. She put me at the foot of the bed, lying crossways the bed. During the night she got me up while I was asleep and led me to the other bedroom where I slept alone. I woke up and realized where I was and realized the shades were not pulled. While pulling the shades down on one side of the room another shade flew up and scared me so badly that I let out a scream that I'm sured woke the whole neighborhood. Don't even attempt to convince me that just because these two women are celebrities that it couldn't be possible for them to have a "mean" grandmother. God forgive me, but I hated my grandmother and feel that she hated me because I loved my mother. As old as I am now those memories are very vivid to me. Bad grandmothers are out there. If you have not susffered as a result of one, then consider yourself lucky. I wish everyday that I had had a loving grandmother. BUT I DID NOT!!!!!

April 26 2011 at 3:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
donpantanella

I use to believe that GP was a traitor for rejecting the United States and moving to France. I now believe that she was well ahead of the rest of us in her thinking. Now that France has become the new free world leader and the United States in disintegrating into a third world country I wish that I could afford to move to another country.

April 26 2011 at 3:21 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Irene Renner

Poor grandma prob passed and cant defend herself. Do these so called celebs hve to tell every darn thing in their lives.

April 26 2011 at 2:05 PM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply
pbftmb

I had two loving grandmothers and grandfathers. Neither of these women should have talked that way about their parents Moms. Especially Gwen considering she supposedly did research into her family.

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April 26 2011 at 1:24 PM Report abuse -3 rate up rate down Reply
jabaileydc

You don't have to be a celebrity to have a mean grandparent. We kids didn't see much of my grandmother, or any of her wealth, because she hated having been a mother and later a grandmother. Too bad she chose to miss out on a chunk of her life that could have been meaningful. But, she made her choices.

April 26 2011 at 1:07 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
kti1992

Isn't her Mothers' mother Whitney Blake? or is she speaking of her paternal grandmother

April 26 2011 at 1:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Blanche

my grandma was mean to me also, she made me behave, she taught me manners, she taught me how to hug, she tauhgt me kindness, etc etc and i miss her everyday

April 26 2011 at 12:46 PM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply

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