Courteney Cox reveals boyfriend dumped her during their first therapy session: ‘I was in so much pain’

Courteney Cox revealed her longtime boyfriend, Johnny McDaid, dumped her 5 years agone during their first associated therapy session.

“It was really intense,” nan “Friends” prima said connected nan “Minnie Questions” podcast Wednesday. “We collapsed up successful therapy. I didn’t cognize it was coming.”

Cox, 59, noted that she and nan Snow Patrol member, 47, were engaged astatine nan time.

“We went to this therapist to talk astir our boundaries — what we could and couldn’t judge astir each other,” she shared.

Instead, McDaid collapsed up pinch nan “Scream” prima “within nan first minute” of their conversation.

“I was like, ‘What?'” she recalled. “And we were engaged. And I was truthful shocked. I was successful truthful overmuch pain. I besides don’t for illustration surprises!”

Cox defended nan musician, calling him “an unthinkable quality being” who “was successful that overmuch symptom successful nan relationship” astatine nan time.

“There was that overmuch that needed to beryllium dealt pinch that he had to protect himself astir his heart,” she said.

The “Cougar Town” prima insisted she did not respond angrily, alternatively looking inward and doing “the astir work” connected herself.

“I learned really to reclaim my voice, boundaries, what were my motives successful life — like, what was my portion successful this?” she added.

Cox is now grateful for nan little divided because her and McDaid’s narration was “different” erstwhile they sewage backmost together.

“It really taught maine really I operated successful nan world, what were nan things from my puerility that I needed,” she said, “whether it was to beryllium adored by men, things that I didn’t cognize really to fto go, to beryllium successful a relationship, to not return things personally, my boundaries. I conscionable went into myself.”

The character admitted she returned to nan aforesaid therapist she “met connected nan breakup day,” which was “brutal” astatine first but yet “great.”

She added that she is “thankful” nan Grammy nominee, whom she is still dating but no longer engaged to, was “so bold and brave because it was life-changing” for them both.

Cox was antecedently married to David Arquette from 1999 to 2013, and they share a 19-year-old girl named Coco.