Gwyneth Paltrow is questioned about friendship with Taylor Swift

‘It feels like an SNL sketch’: Taylor Swift fans react to bizarre video of Gwyneth Paltrow being grilled at her ski crash trial about their friendship and gifting the pop star a vibrator

Social media users were quick to react to a bizarre video of Gwyneth Paltrow getting grilled by the Utah-based lawyer Kristin Vanorman about her friendship with Taylor Swift as she took the stand on Friday to testify in a trial over a 2016 skiing crash.

While testifying about the accident in a Park City courtroom, the 50-year-old Oscar winner was questioned about how close she is to the pop star, 33, who was famously awarded a symbolic $1 in damages on 2017 after she won her case against a Denver DJ accused of groping her.

When asked if she was inspired by the singer’s ‘symbolic’ request for a single dollar, the Contagion actress insisted that she was not familiar with the case when she made the decision to countersue Terry Sanderson, then man that has accused her of skiing ‘recklessly into him on a beginner run at Deer Valley Resort seven years ago,’ according to AP.

‘It’s an actual dollar that I’m asking for,’ she told Sanderson’s attorney, before noting it is ‘symbolic’ because the ‘the damages would actually be more.’

Vanorman then fired back: ‘Remember me asking you, is it symbolic and you said yes it is, and I asked you as well, well you learned about that through Taylor Swift, because she asked for $1 in symbolic damages, right.’

Unexpected: Social media users were quick to react to a bizarre video of Gwyneth Paltrow getting grilled by Utah-based lawyer, Kristin Vanorman, about her friendship with Taylor Swift as she took the stand on Friday to testify in a trial over a 2016 skiing crash

Not that close: While testifying about the accident in a Park City courtroom, the 50-year-old Oscar winner was questioned about how close she is to the pop star, 33, who was famously awarded a symbolic $1 in damages on 2017 after she won her case against a Denver DJ accused of groping her; seen in 2012

Sweet memory: Back in 2015, Paltrow brought her son Moses backstage to meet the Shake It Off hitmaker on the UK leg of her world tour of her album, 1989

‘I think I said at that point that I had not been familiar with it but I since am,’ the mother-of-two replied under oath. 

This led Vanorman to ask if she was ‘good friends’ with Swift. 

Paltrow answered she wouldn’t describe them as ‘good friends’ but said they ‘are friendly.’ 

‘We are friendly. I’ve taken my kids to one of her concerts before, but we don’t talk very often,’ she explained. 

Not convinced by the statement, Vanorman pressed whether Paltrow had ever sent the singer ‘personal intimate gifts for Christmas. 

The plaintiff’s lawyer was referring to 2021 commercial for Paltrow’s lifestyle brand, in which the actress slid a vibrator into a gift bag addressed to Swift.

Footage of the cross-examination quickly went viral on Twitter, TikTok and Instagram, with many wondering how the 12-time Grammy winner’s name was getting dragged into this case. 

One Twitter user, however, joked: ‘Whoever stopped the line of questioning about whether Gwyneth ever gave Taylor a vibrator should be disbarred.’

Another marveled at the fact that the actress was asked ‘at the trial why did she send Taylor sex toys if they are not friends.’ Someone else described the moment as feeling more ‘like an SNL sketch.’

Others questioned the attorney’s motives, with one saying she ‘genuinely just wanted to know more about Ms. Swift’ because the ‘questions were irrelevant to the case.’ 

One Swiftie resurfaced an Instagram Story that Paltrow posted during a Q&A, in which she revealed that Swift has been her ‘lil bud for years but’ that they keep their friendship on the DL [down low].’ 

Back in 2015, Paltrow brought her son Moses backstage to meet the Shake It Off hitmaker on the UK leg of her world tour of her album, 1989. 

Her own idea: When asked if she was inspired by the singer’s ‘symbolic’ request for a single dollar, the Contagion actress insisted that she was not familiar with the case when she made the decision to countersue Terry Sanderson, then man that has accused her of skiing ‘recklessly into him on a beginner run at Deer Valley Resort seven years ago,’ according to AP

‘It’s an actual dollar that I’m asking for,’ she told Sanderson’s attorney, before noting it is ‘symbolic’ because the ‘the damages would actually be more’

Vanorman then fired back: ‘Remember me asking you, is it symbolic and you said yes it is, and I asked you as well, well you learned about that through Taylor Swift, because she asked for $1 in symbolic damages, right’

‘I think I said at that point that I had not been familiar with it but I since am,’ the mother-of-two replied under oath

Just friendly: Paltrow answered she wouldn’t describe them as ‘good friends’ but said they ‘are friendly’

Out of line: Not convinced by the statement, Vanorman pressed whether Paltrow had ever sent the singer ‘personal intimate gifts for Christmas

Bizarre: The plaintiff’s lawyer was referring to 2021 commercial for Paltrow’s lifestyle brand, in which the actress slid a vibrator into a gift bag addressed to Swift

Reacting to the moment: Footage of the cross-examination quickly went viral on Twitter, TikTok and Instagram, with many wondering how the 12-time Grammy winner’s name was getting dragged into this case

Funny: One Twitter user, however, joked: ‘Whoever stopped the line of questioning about whether Gwyneth ever gave Taylor a vibrator should be disbarred’

How is this real: Another marveled at the fact that the actress was asked ‘at the trial why did she send Taylor sex toys if they are not friends.’ Someone else described the moment as feeling more ‘like an SNL sketch’

Yikes: Others questioned the attorney’s motives, with one saying she ‘genuinely just wanted to know more about Ms. Swift’ because the ‘questions were irrelevant to the case’

Another user shared an old GIF of Swift saying she ‘would very much like to be excluded from this narrative’

‘Leave Taylegend out of this,’ another demanded

Overall, people on social media pleaded for the lawyer not to ‘drag Taylor Swift into this’ any further

‘Thanks for giving me and my little man our best date night ever,’ the actress captioned a snap of them smiling at the camera.

Swift reportedly met the older actress through her then-husband Chris Martin years ago, and they became firm friends thanks to their love of country music.

When the Red crooner was on a trip to London back in 2010, Paltrow reportedly threw a dinner party for her Primrose Hill home, where she met ex-boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal.

At the time a source told Perez Hilton: ‘They email and call each other all the time. They talk a lot about music, performing and acting but they also talk about normal stuff like boys and dates.’

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