Courteney Cox has revealed that she feels more and more jealous as she gets older.
“My least favorite thing about myself is feelings of jealousy,” the “Friends” alum, 59, said Wednesday on the “Minnie Questions” podcast.
“Whether you might feel replaced or whatever…I think just jealousy is such a horrible emotion to feel, and I have it sometimes.”
“I feel jealous or scared, whether it’s because I’m getting older and I can’t stay in the game, or it could be because of anything, but whenever I feel jealous, I can’t bear it,” she told host Minnie. Driver. “I’ll talk to my therapist and say, ‘I hate this feeling.'”
“I know when you step back, of course you’re not replaceable, but it’s that feeling that can arise in me, whether it’s through friendships or, like you said, relationships or at work,” she added.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Cox revealed that her longtime boyfriend, Johnny McDaid, dumped her five years ago during their first joint therapy session.
“It was really intense. We broke up in therapy. I didn’t know it was going to happen,” she shared, adding that she and the Snow Patrol member, 47, were engaged at the time.
“We went to this therapist to talk about our boundaries — what we could and couldn’t accept from each other,” she explained.
Instead, McDaid parted ways with the “Scream” star “within the first minute” of their conversation.
“I was like, ‘What? “, she remembers. “And we were engaged. And I was so shocked. I was in so much pain. I don’t like surprises either!
Despite the shock factor, the “Cougar Town” alum said she didn’t react with anger — instead, she focused on herself to do “the most work” on herself.
Without their brief separation, Cox said their relationship would not have developed into what it is today.
“It really taught me how I functioned in the world, what were the things from my childhood that I needed,” she said.
Cox added that “from being adored by men, to things I didn’t know how to let go of, to being in a relationship, to not taking things personally, to my boundaries. I just went into myself.
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