Two men recently caught fire while at Gweneth Paltrow’s Goop store. According to Austin McGuire, chief of police in Sag Harbor, New York, two men attending an event at the Goop store on June 25 were burning a “flammable substance” in a stone candleholder when a flash occurred and lit the men on fire.
The men were treated by EMS, with one transported to Stony Brook Southampton hospital with burns. The second man was transported by medical helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital for additional treatment.
The incident remains under investigation by Sag Harbor Village Fire Marshal Bruce Schiavoni.
In 2021, Texan – Colby Watson, sued the actress, alleging a Goop candle “exploded” on his nightstand.
Watson claimed that he burned the Goop candle for three hours before it was “engulfed in high flames” and damaged his bedside table. He sued Paltrow for $5 million in damages.
However, Paltrow’s “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle urges consumers not to burn it for over two hours.
In May 2021, a spokesperson for Goop said that Watson’s lawsuit had no merit.
“We’re confident this claim is frivolous and an attempt to secure an outsized payout from a press-heavy product. We stand behind the brands we carry and the safety of the products we sell. Here, Heretic, the brand that supplies the candle, has substantiated the product’s performance and safety through industry-standard testing,” the spokesperson said at the time.
Prior to Watson’s lawsuit, a woman named Jody Thompson made similar claims about a candle.
“The candle exploded and emitted huge flames with bits flying everywhere,” Thompson claimed in January 2021. “I’ve never seen anything like it. The whole thing was ablaze, and it was too hot to touch. There was an inferno in the room.”
