United Kingdom, Oct. 15 -- Gwyneth Paltrow thinks her 'conscious uncoupling' left people feeling like they "did divorce wrong".

The 53-year-old star and her ex-husband Chris Martin sparked widespread discussion with their phrasing when they split in 2014 after almost a decade of marriage, and the Iron Man actress has reflected on the backlash they received at the time.

She told the November issue of British Vogue magazine: "There's a lot of hurt around divorce.

"It's a difficult subject and I think why people got so upset was that they heard, 'Well, then, we did it wrong' or 'My parents did it wrong,' which I understand.

"But it was really because we had so many friends who had been so hurt by divorce that we wanted to try to do it a ...