David Arquette Admits Feeling Inferior to Ex-Wife Courteney Cox During Her 'Friends' Fame
David Arquette is admitting to letting his ego impact his marriage to ex-wife Courteney Cox.https://t.co/K1NdiJONxO
- Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) April 28, 2023
David Arquette was asked if he felt inferior to Cox "based on how successful" the NBC sitcom was when they were together.
"Yeah, absolutely. It's difficult...I have some of the traditional male things where I want to like, you know, provide and pick up the check and, you know, be the breadwinner. In the acting world in general, you're always going on this rollercoaster of popularity and, you know, not able to get a job, so it's like this weird thing. And then when you're, you know, comparing yourself to someone who's at the, you know, top of the television, iconic world, it's kinda hard to put yourself there, so there was definitely like learning and dealing with that and a lot of pain and, you know, arguments or, you know, ego, early on."
Asked how the pair dealt with it, Arquette pointed out the importance of getting to the root of the issue. Despite ultimately parting ways, Arquette complimented how they handled their breakup.
After meeting as co-stars in the 1996 cult classic Scream, Cox and Arquette tied the knot in 1999 and welcomed their only child together, daughter Coco, in 2004, the same year Friends ended following a decade-long run. After announcing a trial separation in 2010, they officially filed for divorce two years later and the split was finalized in 2013.
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