Gwyneth Paltrow recently took a swipe at old “frenemy” Winona Ryder on a blog post for Goop, her newsletter. While Paltrow didn’t mention Winona by name, she alluded to an old friend to whom she was once close who wronged her and then suffered a public embarrassment. Winona has suffered many a public embarrassment. Everything from her shoplifting to her Xanax overdose last winter.

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more Gwyneth and Winona pictures after the hop…

Anyway, Gwyneth refuses to name names but wrote (via Page Six):

Back in the day, I had a ‘frenemy’ who, as it turned out, was pretty hell-bent on taking me down. This person really did what they could to hurt me. I was deeply upset, I was angry, I was all of those things you feel when you find out that someone you thought you liked was venomous and dangerous. I restrained myself from fighting back. I tried to take the high road. But one day I heard that something unfortunate and humiliating had happened to this person and my reaction was deep relief … and happiness. There went the high road!”

As we all remember. Gwyneth and Winona shared an apartment together. As the fable goes, Winona attempted to steal away the Shakespeare in Love role, to which Gwyneth eventually won the Oscar. The two never resumed the friendship.

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