Gwyneth Paltrow's Spicy Sex Life With Ben Affleck Couldn't Mask His 'Demons'

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s upcoming biography, Gwyneth: The Biography by Amy Odell, is proving to be filled in 1990s Hollywood lore — there is no shortage of eyebrow-raising tales.

The book is looking back on the now-52-year-old’s relationship with Ben Affleck and how she “spoke openly about how much she enjoyed their sex life,” per a July 16 People excerpt. The dish about their spicy time together was shared with late celebrity makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin. People kept the specific act that Paltrow enjoyed vague, noting, “He does love Dunkin’,” but Page Six didn’t hold back.

“It was the ribald side of her that her friends knew well but that the public didn’t see,” Odell wrote, per the media outlet. “She told Kevyn Aucoin in his London hotel room one day after lunch that she loved when Affleck ‘tea-bagged’ her.”

OK, then! Despite their bedroom chemistry, Paltrow and Affleck also aligned intellectually. Unfortunately, it was The Accountant 2 star’s “demons” that did them in. Odell wrote, “Affleck was struggling with alcoholism and a gambling habit around the time he met Gwyneth.”

“Her friends had reservations about him because he didn’t always reciprocate her affection. He at times seemed more interested in playing video games with the guys at his house than being with Gwyneth,” the book claimed. “Her friends felt like he did not appreciate her. She would be making dinner, and he would want to go out with the guys.” In the end, Affleck’s “self-destructive impulses” were stronger than their physical attraction.

Affleck was Paltrow’s rebound romance after she broke off her engagement to Brad Pitt in 1997. They met at a Miramax dinner and were soon spotted all over Hollywood going on double dates with Winona Ryder and Matt Damon (how very ’90s). It turned into an on-again, off-again situation that eventually fizzled, but not before starring in two movies together, 1998’s Shakespeare in Love and 2000’s Bounce.

Paltrow summed up their relationship in a 2015 interview with Howard Stern.

“He was not in a good place in his life to have a girlfriend,” she explained. “It’s interesting, I think there’s certain boyfriends where you are trying to work stuff out, right? Like, you’re trying to heal certain stuff from your childhood, and he was very much a lesson in that way.”

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