Chris Martin on Paltrow split: ‘Everyone goes through challenges’

Chris Martin has spoken out for the first time about his separation with Gwyneth Paltrow.

The Coldplay frontman referred to the end of his 10-year marriage in an interview BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe.

“Everyone in their life goes through challenges. Whether it’s love or money or kids or illness.”

Discussing the media attention that stars like Justin Bieber attract, he added of his split with Paltrow, “There have been a lot of false headlines recently but this would be a real one.” The quote was in a teaser clip posted online.

The full interview airs on Monday.

Martin and Paltrow announced their “conscious uncoupling” on Paltrow’s lifestyle website, Goop, on March 25.

“It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate,” the couple said in their statement. “We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate.”

Meanwhile, movers were seen outside the couple’s London home on Friday, carrying large boxes as well as guitar cases and trunks out of the house.