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 ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow, but now their children have moved away to college.
Speaking about life after his adult children left home, he admitted: “It’s sad. That’s the only word.
“But of course it would be stranger if they still said, ‘I can’t leave.’ Then you would be more concerned.’
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 Le Bal Des Débutantes at the Shangri-La in Paris, where Apple made its social debut.
Chris Martin came clean about being an empty nester during a candid profile with Rolling Stone
The musician also talked about daughter Apple’s then-upcoming debutante ball, which he attended earlier this month with 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 been dropped.
The musician admitted that he never thought he would participate 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 would do, but because I’m so in love with her, I’m like, ‘Okay.’
The profile noted that the ball was a chance for the whole family to reconnect now that the kids had left the nest.
Martin also revealed the foolish way he recently started teasing Moses in public.
When the subject of his children came up, he said, “I like it [my kids] a lot. Even though they are not biologically mine, I am telling the story now,” he joked.
“My favorite new way to embarrass my son is when we’re walking down the street and someone comes up to us and says, ‘I’m sorry to bother you while you’re with your son,'” I say. That’s not my son. That’s my partner,” he said, laughing.
‘Yes. I like them a lot. I think they’re mine, to be honest,” he said.
Chris enjoyed a dance with his daughter during 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 took place a week before Apple made a social debut at Le Bal Des Débutantes, where she donned a strapless sky-blue Valentino dress from the designer’s Spring 2025 collection, which took a whopping 750 hours to complete.
Gwyneth, who is now married to TV producer Brad Falchuk, attended the event with her ex-husband and their son Moses, as well as her mother Blythe Danner.
Apple was one of about two dozen young women presented at the prestigious Le Bal des Débutantes at the $1,000-a-night Hotel Shangri-La.
In keeping with tradition, each of the young women attending the event at the Hotel Shangri-La in Paris, which was ‘presented’ at Le Bal, was accompanied by a young man known as a chevalier.
While the debutantes took center stage, they were all paired with their chivalrous young men to make their grand entrance to the ball.
Apple’s dashing plus one Leo comes from the Austro-Hungarian noble family House 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.