Gwyneth Paltrow continues to open up about her "conscious uncoupling" from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.
The 37-year-old actress and Marie Claire cover girl recently told the magazine that she simply "hit a wall" with her husband of 11 years.
"There was nothing dramatic or anything," Paltrow said.
"I had built my life on trying to be all things to all people," she added. "And I just couldn't do it anymore, and I really had the sense that I wasn't allowed to have needs, and I had to prove my specialness or self-worth by doing all this stuff and taking care of everybody else, and I just sort of hit a wall."
Paltrow added that she and Martin remain "very close."
"We've worked really f***ing hard to get to [this] point. But we're very, very close, and it's so nice. I feel like it's, in a way, the relationship we were meant to have," she said.
Paltrow, who is promoting her upcoming comedy, Mordecai, also discussed the split with Harper's Bazaar.
"Of course, there are times when I think it would have been better if we had stayed married, which is always what your children want," she said.
Mordecai hits theaters January 23.