There was a time when things weren't all rainbows and butterflies for Courteney Cox and her partner, Johnny McDaid. During an episode of Minnie Driver's podcast
Minnie Questions, Cox opened up about the Snow Patrol musician breaking up with her during couple's therapy three years into their relationship
“Three years in, we broke up, and it was really intense,” she remembered. “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
Cox then revealed that McDaid, to whom she was engaged to at the time, initiated the split “within the first minute" of their session, leaving her "shocked" and "in so much pain."
"We were engaged, and I was so shocked. I was in so much pain," she recalled. "I also don’t like surprises, and he’s an incredible human being, so he wasn’t trying to surprise me.
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