Gwyneth Paltrow broke down in tears after husband Chris Martin sang ‘Fix You’ during a recent Coldplay concert.

The Oscar-winning actress became very emotional when the song - which Chris wrote for Gwyneth following her father’s death in 2002 - was played and couldn’t stop crying.

An onlooker at the New York show said: “Gwyneth was whispering and clapping throughout the show. But when ‘Fix You’ started, she broke down in tears.”

The lyrics in the ballad - which include “Tears stream down your face, when you lose something you cannot replace” - are about Gwyneth and the loss she felt.

After the show, mother-of-two Gwyneth was comforted by Chris, who tried to cheer her up.

The onlooker added: “He noticed she had been crying. He kissed her and made her laugh by pointing out all the things he had screwed up in the show.”

Chris has previously revealed his wife inspires his song writing, saying: “Everything in my life comes up. Gwyneth’s in there. My friends are in there. The way I see the world is in there. The lyrics come out and I just - I try not to get in their way.”

Coldplay front man Chris Martin may be happily married to Gwyneth Paltrow and have two kids together but the singer still feels like an underdog sometimes. In an interview with Rolling Stone, he said “You’ve got to be hungry. If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you’d want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?” Barack Obama also became a topic of conversation in the article as Chris mentions a reason for hope saying “As soon as Barack Obama becomes president, people will be a bit more optimistic. If Obama was to be president, it would immediately change the whole outside world’s opinion of America overnight.”

Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Chris Martin are very happy together, says the actress’ mother.

Blythe Danner has dismissed reports the couple are going through a bad patch, and says they are still very much in love.

Blythe said: “I’ve never seen two happier parents and people. Happy, happy people. I don’t get it.”

Blythe also quashed rumours Gwyneth is planning to quit Hollywood and focus on raising the couple’s two children, three-year-old daughter Apple and one-year-old son Moses.

The ‘Meet the Parents’ star said: “People are saying Gwyneth isn’t going to go back to work, which is a lot of BS too. She very much wants to go back to work. She’s a great, wonderful actress. But motherhood is very important to her, as it was to me, and she’s finding the balance. And it’s hard to find that balance.”

The couple have been spending a lot of time apart recently as Chris has been holed up in different recording studios working on the new Coldplay album ‘Viva La Vida’, while Gwyneth was busy filming new movie ‘Iron Man’.