Paltrow enjoyed a benefit from her plane troubles
Gwyneth Paltrow was relieved by her recent plane woes - because it meant she didn't have to spend a single day apart from her daughter Apple.
The Shakespeare In Love star was preparing spend her first full day away from the one-year-old on Sunday to fly to the Venice Film Festival to promote her new movie Proof.
But technical problems prompted Paltrow's plane to return to New York City.
She said: "I was supposed to leave her for the first time ever this weekend… I was nervous about leaving her, but I sort of plucked up the courage and I packed and I got on the plane. I was not going to see her for one day. It is a big deal. I was nervous about it.
"I got to the airport and got on the plane and I was sort of calming myself down and then the plane was delayed an hour because the pilot said they were loading 3,000 pounds of US mail onto the plane.
"We took off and we got about an hour over the Atlantic and then the pilot came on and said what you really don't want to hear when you're a passenger on a plane, which is, 'Ladies and gentlemen, we have a problem.'
"It turned out that all the navigational systems on the plane were not working and each one was saying we were in a different spot. So we had to turn around and go back." But the plane journey back was just the start of Paltrow's crazy day: "I had this crazy drive to eastern Long Island to go try catch up with my husband and daughter.
"I had this very sweet driver who didn't speak a word of English. He went into a 7-11 (grocery store) parking lot for like 15 minutes at 2 (o'clock) in the morning and left me in the back of the car... He was doing something. He emerged from the bushes in front of the car 15 minutes later. I got (to my
family) at about 3.30 in the morning."
