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"One month after his dramatic split from actress Gwyneth Paltrow, singer Chris Martin is opening up about the end of his marriage.&amp;#xA0;\r\nThe Coldplay frontman, 37, sat down with BBC Radio 1&amp;apos;s Zane Lowe for an extended interview about his band&amp;apos;s new album, his thoughts on One Direction, and his very public private life.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;apos;t use the word breakdown,&amp;quot; Martin told Lowe about the dissolution of his marriage. &amp;quot;This was more a realization about trying to grow up basically&amp;#x2026; if you can&amp;apos;t open yourself up, you can&amp;apos;t appreciate the wonder inside. So you can be with someone very wonderful, but because of your own issues you cannot let that be celebrated in the right way.&amp;quot;\r\nMartin and Paltrow, 41, announced the end of their 11-year marriage in a blog post on Paltrow&amp;apos;s lifestyle website, Goop, on March 25. The pair titled the post &amp;quot;Conscious Uncoupling,&amp;quot; and wrote, &amp;quot;It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.&amp;quot; Sources told Us Weekly that the end of the marriage was sparked by clashes over parenting strategies, disagreements over plans for the family, and even the strain of Paltrow&amp;apos;s strict dietary rules. Tensions also escalated over ongoing rumors of infidelity.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nThe Grammy winner, who is the father to two children with Paltrow, continued to Lowe: &amp;quot;What changed for me was, I don&amp;apos;t want to go through life being scared of it, being scared of love, being scared of rejection, being scared of failure&amp;#x2026; About two years ago I was a mess really because I can&amp;apos;t enjoy the thing that we are good at and I can&amp;apos;t enjoy the great things around me because I&amp;apos;m burdened by this -- I&amp;apos;ve got to not blame anyone else and make some changes.&amp;quot;\r\nMartin went on to elaborate on his own issues, saying, &amp;quot;Up to a certain point in my life I wasn&amp;apos;t completely vulnerable and it caused some problems. If you don&amp;apos;t let love really in then you can&amp;apos;t really give it back.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nThe sit-down was also a chance for the musician to plug Coldplay&amp;apos;s latest album Ghost Stories. The project is due out May 19.&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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