Disaster Gwyneth Paltrow's company sued after man claims vagina-scented candle 'exploded'

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Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle company is being sued after a man alleged one of its "vagina-scented" candles "exploded".

Colby Watson, from Texas, said he bought the infamous $75 "This Smells Like My Vagina" candle from Goop's website in January.

After burning it for about three hours on his bedside table, he alleged the candle "exploded" and became "engulfed in high flames", according to a court document.

He said the blaze left a "black burn ring" on his bedside table and the candle jar was "charred and black".

However, no injuries were reported.

The complainant is seeking a jury trial and triple compensation as well as punitive damages of more than $5m (£3.5m) for him and others who "through no fault of their own, purchased defective and dangerous vagina-scented candles", the court document said.

A woman in the UK also alleged that her Goop candle exploded in January.

Writing in The Guardian, Jody Thompson said the product - which was the same model as the one bought by Mr Watson - exploded "a few minutes after" lighting it.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
Wow, real classy approach by the lawyers, "well her cooter's worthless anyway as a baby maker, so who gives a shit?"
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There's a reason people despise lawyers, especially corporate ones. And that goes triple for the McDonald's ones who have forced no end of family-owned pubs to shut down.
 
This is a risk with any candle in a glass jar. If part of the glass gets hot, but the rest doesn't '- boom.

I forgot to get a tealight for a pumpkin on Halloween, and grabbed an old jar candle and stuck it in. Contact with the pumpkin kept the bottom of the jar cool, and it was lit so long the top glass got too hot, it popped into shards.

I think this is why they sell those candle warmers to set the jars on, it equalizes the temps to keep the glass whole.
 
HarblMcDavid said:
As funny as this is I'm not sure I follow their theory on damages; at least the McDonalds hot coffee woman had burns to show for it.
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I mean, McDonald's hot coffee woman had third degree burns and parts of her thighs were fused together. She needed multiple surgeries and skin grafts.
 
A Cardboard Box said:
I mean, McDonald's hot coffee woman had third degree burns and parts of her thighs were fused together. She needed multiple surgeries and skin grafts.
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I don't disagree, and that's the point; despite the ridiculous sounding headline she had documentable damages whereas homeboy with the vag-candle can best be described as "watching a candle flame up violently while being within visual range".
 
Maybe they didn't read the fine print that says 1 in every 500 candles has an M80 firecracker at the bottom of the wick. Or maybe her pussy just smells like gunpowder and gasoline. Anyone who's autistic enough to buy a candle that smells like a celebs's pussy surely has some gamer girl bathwater on their nightstand as well that they could put out the fire with in case of emergencies.
 
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Is this really unusual though? I don't have a candle handy, but pretty sure they usually have a safety warning sticker on the bottom that says not to burn them for longer than a couple hours at a time because there's some kind of buildup or the oil in the melted wax can catch fire or something. Along with keeping the wick trimmed, don't leave unattended, keep however far away from flammable objects, etc. He might have a case if there wasn't a warning label but I doubt there was something especially dangerous about this candle in particular.

Describing it as an explosion is pretty silly too, although it reminds me of the "exploding" Teavana tea tumbler lawsuit a few years ago. They made these glass teacups, intended for hot tea, and hundreds of them shattered when they had hot liquid poured in them. Usually they were on a surface when it happened but a few people were holding their cup and ended up with cuts and burns. It's like they didn't test if it could do the one thing it was designed to do.
 
I think people here are assuming the candle has any vagina-like odor. It doesn't, it really doesn't smell like her vagina, but like what she thinks her vagina smells like: "this candle is made with geranium, citrusy bergamot, and cedar absolutes juxtaposed with Damask rose and ambrette seed"

That's right, this woman is so full of herself she thinks her cooch smells like flowers.
 
dry roasted said:
It was so hot it fused her labia together and basically destroyed her entire groin area. Her medical bills were insane. McDonalds legal team argued it wasn't worth as much money as she was asking because she was done having children. And they smeared her so badly people still make fun of her as a symbol of how Americans will sue over anything, "dumb bitch that sued because her coffee was hot, like what did she expect?" Not 190 fucking degrees hot.
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This story, when I first found out the truth of it, made me madder than just about anything else I’ve ever heard.

Just the sheer naked greed, the smearing of a poor innocent woman for exercising her rights, the attempt to chill other people from suing, it’s an absolute malicious and awful thing. I know it was decades ago, but I still refuse to eat at McDonald’s because of it.

I am always glad when other people who also know the story help make sure it gets out there. Nice work everyone in this thread!
 
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