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Topics: Courteney Cox, Friends, Sex and Relationships
Callum Jones
Topics: Courteney Cox, Friends, Sex and Relationships
Couples therapy is meant to fix a relationship, so getting dumped just a minute into it is a little unfortunate.
However, that is exactly what happened to Friends star Courteney Cox after she revealed Snow Patrol rocker Johnny McDaid dumped her 60 seconds into the mediation.
Courteney is not one to shy away from speaking about relationships, no matter how painful it may be.
And while she and Johnny may now be back together, the situation with the Snow Patrol musician did cause her a lot of pain.
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Speaking on the Minnie Questions podcast, the Friends star said: "Johnny and I broke up five years ago. 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, it was just like we went to this therapist to talk about our boundaries - what we could and couldn't accept about each other.
"Instead, he just broke up within the first minute. And I was like 'What?' And we were engaged. And I was so shocked, I was in so much pain, I also don't like surprises."
She added: "He's an incredible human being, so he wasn't trying to surprise. He was in that much pain in the relationship.
"There was that much that needed to be dealt with that he had to protect himself around his heart.
"So as opposed to like going 'F*** him', getting in this mode of anger, I leant in and I did the most work on myself by far."
Looking back, some years later, Courteney now reckons the breakup was a good thing.
"I learned how to reclaim my voice, boundaries, what were my motives in life," the Friends star said.
"I'm so thankful for that break-up because when we got back together it was a different relationship, but also because it really taught me how I operated in the world - what were the things from my childhood that I needed.
"Whether it was to be adored by men. Things that I didn't know how to let go to be in a relationship. To not take things personally. My boundaries, I just went into myself and I had a great therapist."
When they reunited, the couple changed their relationship from engaged to just 'together'.
However, in 2022 Cox said she wasn't opposed to marrying Johnny.