Gwyneth Paltrow says she went to a ‘dark place’ following birth of her son

"I never thought that I would be a person who got post-natal depression."

Gwyneth Paltrow has told how she was in a "really dark place" following the birth of her son, Moses. The mum-of-two sat down with her own mum, actress Blythe Danner, for a special episode of the goop podcast, called: “Gwyneth x Blythe: On Mothers and Daughters.”   According to People, she explained that her first pregnancy with her daughter, Apple, had been "so euphoric" - and she assumed it would happen the second time. She explained:

“I think [it] was really shocking to me because I never thought that I would be a person who got post-natal depression. “I was so euphoric when Apple was born, and I assumed it would happen with Mosey and it just … it took a while. I really went into a dark place."

The mum, who shares two children with ex-husband Chris Martin, had previously opened up about her "very debilitating" battle with postpartum depression in 2015. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, she said:

"Luckily, [my case] was low grade enough that I didn't have to be hospitalized, but it's a very debilitating thing, and I think there's so much shame around it and there shouldn't be. "It's something that happens, it's something that befalls many women after they have a baby, and for me, it ended up being a wonderful opportunity to explore some underlying issues that I think the depression kind of brought out.