Reports about Chris and I dating got us together: Gwyneth Paltrow

London: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is grateful for the speculation about her dating Chris Martin because it brought them together.

The 40-year-old recalled how she was being romantically linked with the Coldplay singer in 2002 before they had even met, reported Sun Online. Then Martin made a joke about it onstage at a gig and suddenly the rumour-mill went into overdrive. "It`s funny because people had started writing that we were going out and we had never even met. And then he was in Los Angeles doing a concert and an actress that he had a crush on was supposed to come to the concert. When she didn`t show up, he was so annoyed that he said, `Oh, this is for my girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow.` "Then people were saying, `What`s going on?` I was like, `I`ve never met this guy, I`ve no idea!` And because of that, because people were writing about it, we ended up meeting at a concert and there you go. So, thank you!," she said. Confirming that they first met at a Coldplay gig in London, Paltrow added, "Because they had written so much in the Press, his assistant came to my seat at the concert. They said, `This is so crazy, but will you come back and say hello afterwards?` And that was it." The couple got married just over a year later in December 2003 and now have a daughter Apple, eight, and seven-year-old son, Moses. PTI