Courteney Coxrevealed how she once walked into a couples therapy session engaged to her longtime beau,Johnny McDaid, and came out a single woman.
TheFriendsstar, 59, spoke about how she was completely blindsided when the Snow Patrol band member broke up with her about a minute into the therapy session and left her “so shocked.”
Courteneyhad been with Johnny, who she described as “an incredible human being,” since 2013. They decided they needed to discuss “boundaries” during the couples therapy session, which took place about three years into their relationship.
Courteney Cox revealed how she and her boyfriend, Johnny McDaid, once walked into a couples therapy session to discuss “boundaries” and walked out single
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Recalling the incident from “about five years ago,”Courteneysaid on theMinnie Questions with Minnie Driverpodcast, “So three years in, we broke up, and it was really intense. We broke up in therapy. I didn’t know it was coming, whether I should have or not.”
Instead of sitting through the session, “he just broke up within the first minute. And I was like, what? We were engaged, and I was so shocked. I was in so much pain,” theScreamactress told the podcast host.
“He wasn’t trying to surprise me. He was in that much pain in the relationship,” she continued. “There was that much that needed to be dealt with that he had to protect himself around his heart.”
TheFriendsstar said she is “so thankful for that breakup” because it made things better when she got back together with theSnow Patrolband member
“I learned how to reclaim my voice, boundaries. What were my motives in life? Like, what was my part in this?” she added.
The director and producer was previously married to David Arquette from 1999 to 2003, and they became parents to daughter Coco together.
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Courteney revealed that their brief split was “life-changing” and was for the better.
“When we got back together, it was a different relationship, but also because it really taught me how I operated in the world,” she said.
“I’m thankful that Johnny was so bold and brave because it was life-changing for me, and I’m sure for him,” she added.Aivaras Kaziukonis
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