GWYNETH Paltrow was desperate to keep her marriage split a secret.
The actress apparently didn’t want to go public with her her “conscious uncoupling” from her Coldplay rocker Chris Martin.
Sources tell New York Post gossip column Page Six that Paltrow wanted to keep pretending to the world that they were still together.
“It was his idea to announce the split. They had drifted apart, and there was no chance they’d get back together, so he felt it was wrong to keep pretending,” said an insider.
Meanwhile, Chris apparently thinks Gwyneth is spreading vicious cheating rumors about him.
According to insiders, Martin believes Paltrow is trying to make him appear “less sympathetic”.
“Chris now believes that Gwyneth is leaking rumors about his alleged trysts in an effort to sully his image and make him look less sympathetic,” a source told RadarOnline.
“Gwyn is so angry that she’s threatening to turn the divorce ugly, saying she’s going to squeeze spousal support out of Chris, despite her multi-million dollar fortune.”
Paltrow and Martin are worth a mind-blowing $280 million — but the source says the GOOP founder could take Martin for an extra $25 million!
“Gwyneth believes she deserves a settlement of at least a lump sum of $25 million from Chris because he is the breadwinner and their kids will live with her most of the time,” the source said.
“She believes Chris should ‘man up’ and do the chivalrous thing. Friends are bracing for an ugly divorce showdown.
“Friends of the of the couple point to a major double standard, with Gwyneth having pushed for open marriage so she could pursue other men, but demanding absolute fidelity from Chris.
“Chris is telling friends that Gwyneth was so self-involved that she believed she was more evolved than Chris and that she could better emotionally handle juggling out of marriage relationships with other men.”