Gwyneth Paltrow says Jack Nicholson tried to ask her out multiple times

When Gwyneth Paltrow won her first and only Oscar in 1999, she avoided a seriously awkward moment onstage.

Jack Nicholson had the honour of presenting Best Actress that year and, according to Paltrow, the legendary actor had been trying to get her to go on a date with him for for a while before that year's Academy Awards.

"Jack Nicholson gave it to me," Paltrow, who was 26 to his 61 at the time, recounted to Variety. "There's a funny story where he'd been trying to ask me out before, and I was like, 'I have a boyfriend!'"

The Goop founder, who was awarded for her performance in "Shakespeare in Love," went on to explain that the moment didn't end up being as awkward as she may have anticipated, but she did forget to take the envelope with her name in it from him.

The chivalrous actor sent her the envelope "with a tender note."

"I have it framed," Paltrow revealed.

Earlier that awards season, the actress had shocked the industry by winning the Golden Globe for her performance, which changed her life forever: It was at that point that Paltrow could no longer go around unrecognised.

"At the time, Los Angeles was a one-industry place," she told Variety. "Everywhere I went, I didn't feel like a civilian. I don't even know how to articulate it."

The effect that it had on her life upped Paltrow's anxiety, which ended up affecting her physical appearance at the Oscars, where she wore a now-iconic pink Ralph Lauren dress that she chose herself "based on a frock that she'd seen at a fashion show."

"Every time I would go have a fitting, I would lose six pounds, because I was just so nervous," Paltrow explained. "I'm one of those people, when I'm nervous I can't eat."

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