Chris Martin got real about life as an empty nester and shared his thoughts on daughter Apple’s then-upcoming debutante ball during a candid interview with Rolling Stone.
The Coldplay singer shares Apple, 20, and son Moses, with his ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow, but now their children have moved out for college.
Speaking of life after his grown children moved out, he admitted: ‘It’s sad. That’s the only word.
‘But of course, it’d be weirder if they were still like, “I can’t leave.” Then you’d be more worried.’
Both Apple and Moses are college students, with the former attending Vanderbilt University and the latter a freshman at Brown.
Earlier this month, Chris, Gwyneth, and Moses attended the Le Bal Des Débutantes at the Shangri-La in Paris, where Apple made her social debut.
Chris Martin got real about being an empty nester during a candid profile with Rolling Stone
The musician also opened up about daughter Apple’s then-upcoming debutante ball, which he attended earlier this month alongside his ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow, their son Moses, and his former mother-in-law Blythe Danner
At the time of the interview, the ball had not yet occurred.
The musician admitted he never imagined himself participating in the ball but agreed to do so out of love for his daughter.
Chris called the soiree ‘so not something I ever thought I’d do, but because I’m so in love with her, I’m like, “OK.”‘
The profile noted the ball was a chance for the whole family to reconnect now that the children had left the nest.
Martin also revealed the silly way he had recently started teasing Moses in public.
As the topic of his kids came up, he said, ‘I like [my kids] very much. Even though they’re not biologically mine – I’m breaking the story now,’ he joked.
‘My favorite new thing to embarrass my son is, if we’re walking down the street and someone comes up to us and they say, “I’m sorry to disturb you while you’re with your son,” I say, “That’s not my son. That’s my partner,”‘ he said laughing.
‘Yeah. I like them a lot. I think they are mine, to be fair,’ he said.
Chris enjoyed a dance with his daughter at the soiree
Chris shares Apple and Moses with Gwyneth, whom he was married to from 2003 to 2016
Both Apple and Moses are college students, with the former attending Vanderbilt University and the latter a freshman at Brown
The interview was conducted a week before Apple made a social debut at the Le Bal Des Débutantes, where she donned a strapless Valentino sky blue gown from the designer’s Spring 2025 collection which took a staggering 750 hours to complete.
Gwyneth, who is now married to TV producer Brad Falchuk, was in attendance at the event along with her ex-husband and their son Moses as well as her mom Blythe Danner.
Apple was among around 20 young women who were presented at the prestigious Le Bal des Débutantes held in the $1,000-a-night Hotel Shangri-La.
In fitting with tradition, each of the young women attending the event at the Hotel Shangri-La in Paris ‘presented’ at Le Bal were accompanied by a young man, known as a chevalier.
While the débutantes took centre stage, each was paired with their chevalier young men, to make their grand entrance at the ball.
Apple’s dashing plus one Leo hails from the Austro-Hungarian noble family House of Henckel von Donnersmarck.
Leo is the son of film director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Christiane Asschenfeldt, the first International Executive Director of Creative Commons.
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