Shock of shocks, David Arquette and Courteney Cox’s split took only one cover story this week. And by that I mean, the big cover, not the sidebar. Their split made it to every sidebar story, and the tabloids didn’t have time to do a big “WHAT HAPPENED?!” to Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman. But Courtney got her solo People cover – probably her first in a years and years. Unfortunately for all of the tabloids, deadlines are deadlines, and my guess is that no one got the chance to update their stories with David’s candid comments to Howard Stern yesterday. So what we’re left with is bits and pieces of unnamed sources doing a lot of hand-wringing – where were these sources when the blogs and the budget tabloids (like Star) were saying that something weird was happening in their marriage, and that Courteney was boning Brian Van Holt?
Shooting their movie Scream 4 this summer, things didn’t seem right between David Arquette and Courteney Cox. The pair put on a united front for daughter Coco, 6, but often retreated to separate trailers between takes.
“It seemed like the worst-kept secret that things were weird between them,” a set source tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story.
In the wake of their separation announcement this week – and Arquette’s recent revelations about the couple’s issues and their sex life to Howard Stern – friends of the famously mismatched pair say they always had differences but seemed to work through them.
Now, however, both Arquette, 39, and Cox, 46, are figuring out where to go from here.
“This was not an overnight thing,” a source close to the pair says of their trial separation. “They needed to figure things out and try to find a happy place again.”
[From People]
Yeah, I feel pretty confident saying that they’re not going to get back together. I’m just hoping that David doesn’t spin out of control and that they both maintain a strong friendship for their daughter.
Meanwhile, many of these a-hole “sources” are putting the “blame” for the split on Courteney’s years-long fertility issues. One source tells OK! Magazine: “They had trouble getting pregnant after Coco so it really put a strain on the marriage and on the relationship. Eventually they drifted apart.” I find this a low-blow, and it offends me deeply. For all of her faults, I always admired Courteney’s candid, honest discussion about her fertility problems, and I know she spoke for many women facing the same difficulties. I’m sure both David and Courteney would have liked to have had other kids, and maybe they still will, separately or in other, future relationships. It just seems like some of the tabloid “sources” are making sure that Courteney gets the “blame” for the split because she didn’t have enough babies, or because she had fertility issues. When really everyone is ignoring her jump-off, you know?
One more thing – that chick Jasmine Waltz, the one David boned when he and Courteney were separated… well, she’s trying to get her 15 minutes’ worth. Radar and TMZ both have stories about her this morning. Ugh.
Here are some photos from a few months ago, with Laura Dern sitting in between them like the harbinger of DOOM.
People cover courtesy of CoverAwards.
I doubt the reason they broke up is because of fertility issues but who knows? Sounds like she had her hands full with this man-child and Coco. Not that he doesn’t seem like a sweet guy, just that he is probably very very high-maintenance.
Did you really call Laura Dern the harbinger of doom. That’s hilarious, but true. Why does she have some of the worste breakups?
A man who went on Howard Stern to discuss private issues would be a ‘deal-breaker’.
Also, please take down the picture of the revamped Kenny Rogers.. it’s still too early in the morning for that!
‘harbinger of DOOM’
you’re a maniac kais! lmao 🙂
I would be so pissed that he went on Howard Stern and shared such private details of their relationship. Just proves that he’s an immature cad.
It’s embarrassing for Courtney, but still interesting, I think, that he said sex was “scheduled” and “mechanical” but passionate. Huh.
hmmm, Laura Dern is sitting right in the middle….so I guess it’s not just Aniston’s fault they split.
I think Courtney has been wanting out for a while now and used her friends as buffers.
Fertility was definatly not the reason they broke up. Not cool to harp on someone’s inner pain like that. I think if this was even on the radar, David, with his big mouth woulda told Stern yesterday, but he DIDNT. So I think it definatly was the cheating and immaturity.
Again, Poor Coco.
I think fertility issues may have been the problem. These weere people for whom fertility was important, more so than for most couples. They said how they would not consider adoption.
Some people see their reason for being on this earth is to procreate. When they can’t, they have failed, they want to project it on their mate, and the marriage fails.
Although he wouldn’t discuss it with me, I believe this was the problem for my ex-husband. I didn’t understand. I couldn’t have loved my daughters any had I given birth to them.
I think David is fronting this whole immaturity thing to let her come out of this with a positive image. He’s almost too vocal about it…if it were really true, wouldn’t he be too immature to own up to it?
I never understood how she was married to him. He seems like a fun guy to hang out with but to be married to? Not so much.
Co-sign with La Chica. Yes, David is weird and he can probably be a handful, but I think he’s showing a lot of grace and maturity right now.
She had “fertility issues” and miscarriages since before they had Coco (6+ years ago?), so why would it be a deal-breaker now? It’s not like they didn’t know her chances of another full-term pregnancy would be low, especially with her history and her age.
Maybe SHE didn’t even want another child with HIM (or vice versa, gasp!) for a whole host of other reasons that makes either one unwilling/incapable of parenting another child.
Or can’t it JUST be 2 people, who probably did not have THAT deep of a connection to begin with, have grown apart?
Sheesh.
“Grace and maturity” spilling his private business on Howard Stern? Ix-nay.
Cheyenne – If Cox was screwing around on him, he certainly changed the story and the focus, didn’t he? It seems like he was falling on his sword for her.
I don’t want to get all conclusion jumpy, I’m sure Laura D. is just friends with Cox and David A. But didn’t I see an item about her man filing for divorce, practically the same day the Cox and Arquette story broke? Aimple coincidence I’m sure. . .
make that: ‘Simple coincidence’ with my apologies.
So are any of the Arquette siblings married any longer?
David is on his way to divorce.
Alexis (Robert, Eva Destruction) has never married, I think.
Patricia is working on her third, right?
Rosanna has a few under her belt, I believe.
And there’s another brother out there…
@harbinger of dern?
Actually Ben filed for divorce because she was spending too much time sitting between cox and david ! It all adds up!
Now if we can figure out how Christina’s split fits into all this…must be aniston’s fault there as well.Damn b*tch !
I think I agree with kaiser that Courtney wanted out, was at least having an emotional affair, and David basically fell on his sword to protect her rep. That said, if he’s partying it up with younger people while she’s at home, that’ not healthy for the relationship either.
Awww, poor Christina, she can’t catch a break! Competing with Lady Gaga and her career on the downturn and she still can’t get much publicity about her split because everyone is talking about Courteney and David.
Just going on Howard Stern and listing private details of your marriage is by itself cause for IMMEDIATE DIVORCE. and isn’t the entire Arquette clan a teensy bit on the strange side?
This is the most boring, anti-climactic break-up ever. I couldn’t care less and hope the stories stop soon. There’s just something about Courteney Cox that is an antidote for insomnia for me.
David shouldn’t have talked about this very personal stuff. Also the way he said it wasn’t neat. And i really like both David and Courteney. On the other hand, you could hear his voice if you actually listened to the video’s, and he sounded broken, really. But Courteney does have a point of him being immature, she stays home, and opens up to her close friends (the Cougar Town cast included, so yes, also Brian Van Holt). That’s what everyone would do, seek for support and comfort with their friends.
But Howard Stern (pretending to be David’s friend, what a joke!) kept going on about Courteney having this affair with Brian Van Holt. David himself said this isn’t true at all! He said that he thinks there might be someone /a man she saw to talk with, something David (who admitted this himself) can’t in serious/difficult situations. He doesn’t communicate enough, so yes Courteney seeks this in her friends? Is this so weird? i think it’s something most of us would do. But Howard immidiately blamed her for it, he obviously is a total narcastic pig hearing him in this whole interview, constantly pointing his finger at the woman. While David got treated like the coolest in this situation. Sorry but instead of going out, partying, drinking and sleeping around with the next best fame seeking tramp (for crying out loud) he also could have chosen to stay home, stay in control, and not let himself go like that, he should just have stayed home and try and fight for his marriage. Yes Courteney might have said “i want this trial seperation, you just do whatever you have to do”, it doesn’t mean it was a smart thing to sleep around so soon, just because he hasn’t had sex in 4 months. And then talk about this with Howard Stern, he can’t seriously talk with his wife Courteney, but he can with Howard who isn’t even a real friend, saying David should just forget about getting back together and Courteney will find someone else so fast it will hit him in the head! Howard just wanted to make the interview juicy and make more money. So that IS allowed, but Courteney who can’t communicate with David, isn’t allowed to talk in private (which i respect a whole lote more!) with her friends (Brian Van Holt included), because then she is having an emotional affair? Hellooo! Woman these days have the same right as men do! And even though David said Courteney didn’t have an affair and this had nothing to do with Jennifer Aniston, Howard kept saying i think it does, i think it does! Geez David should have hung up at that point already. Who the hell does Howard think he is, acting like he knows David’s own wife and friends better than David knows them himself! And he is a sexist pig (Howard!) he knew Courteney might be listening and still he started the interview with his disrespectful bull that David’s fling is so smoking hot! He was just enjoying it all, i just don’t get how David could accept that. David doesn’t even care for that tramp, thats obvious, he sounded offended when Howard said she was his new girlfriend, and he didn’t remember how many times they had sex, well did she make a good impression on him, huh? Not! She will never be able to top Courteney. A mistake of David, but he also said a lot of good stuff about Courteney, his broken heart took over his mind for a bit i think, and that’s why he spilled it all, and used the language he used. But the main point is, he is devastated and wants Courteney back. I just hope they figure it out.
His interview on howard stern was a total PR move, to protect Courteney’s rep. They probably had an open marriage like all the gossip sites say and she wouldn’t appeal to the minivan majority should they find out. He probably doesn’t care about a squeaky clean persona as much as she does, so he takes one for the team, and lets her come out of this smelling like roses!
As someone who went through fertility issues including the loss of a baby, I am here to tell you that it can completely wreck a marriage. Luckily our journey only lasted less than two years – I can’t imagine years and years of that kind of pressure and stress. Anyone who says that had nothing to do with the demise of C & D’s marriage, just has no idea what it’s like to go through something that heartwrenching on a daily basis…
Also, after thirteen years of marriage, my brother-in-law and his wife are now going through a divorce. They spent years and years and untold thousands of dollars trying desperately to have a child, and never could – and their marriage just couldn’t withstand the stress, disappointment, etc. So sad…
I believe C & D had a difficult time having Coco, and then REALLY had a hard time of it when trying to have another. And for those jackholes who like to say, “Well you already have one, what’s the big deal when you can’t have another?!?!” I’m here to tell you that just because you have one doesn’t make you want another one any less…especially when your first has added so much to your marriage, and life, and you have so much love to give.
Men and women deal with things SOOOO differently, and, personally, I think that’s what happened here. Women are emotional, need to vent, need to express their feelings – and men just usually aren’t as open. They want to fix things. They don’t want to come across as weak. They’re not the one going through hormonal surges, physically dealing with the death of a baby inside of them, feeling like there’s something wrong with you that you can’t do this one simple thing that men and women were born to do.
If you’re not careful, and you don’t communicate CONSTANTLY with one another – and you already are handicapped by one partner being grossly immature – death knell every time. Feel so bad for them – and especially for their little girl.
ROFL for harbinger of doom comment !!
for David Arquette, i always liked him — i think Courtney is letting a good thing go. personally i prefer honesty / loyalty / kooky / wants my mommying now and then to cheating / sleazy / not into me or our child. …but that is just me. 😉
I think they had some sort of open marriage for a long time and it worked for them. I do believe her infertility probably caused a huge strain. Being pumped up with hormones does awful things to your head. I think that Hollywood marriages-with rare exception-have a shelf life of about 5 years-so in this regard, they were a “success”.
Didn’t he discuss the break up with Stern? He was immature and it didn’t seem charming to her anymore, people grow tired and frustrated with each other. I think he was wrong for him to go out and say this to Stern, but sounded really frustrated ,depressed and upset, or maybe drunk.
At one point Stern told him that he should date Jennifer Aniston and then dumped her for Jolie. That would really hurt Courtney.
I think David did the Stern interview to ENSURE that there’s absolutely no chance that they will get back together! Working things out, ha – going on Stern and running his mouth is not just putting the final nail in the coffin, it’s getting the nail gun and sealing that corpse in there, once and for all!
@Ivy….. I do know how it feels but Courtney has always talked about her fertility issues BEFORE Coco. She has not said that she has been trying again. So, how could it be the demise when it is not even in the conversation.
Also, I cannot have anymore babies myself, so, when I posted that it wasnt the cause of the divorce, I honestly believe it isnt. I have one child and have lost 2. One by miscarriage and one by ectopic. It ruptured and I almost died, I had to have emergency surgery to remove my baby and my tubes, so dont tell me I dont understand cause I do.
“If Cox was screwing around on him, he certainly changed the story and the focus, didn’t he? It seems like he was falling on his sword for her.”
Yeah – after some thought, I have agree with you on this Kaiser. Even though his disclosures might have been too personal, he did put himself out there for her sake and Coco’s, and I’ve got to admire him for that. I wish all of them the best.
I agree Kaiser. I don’t think immaturity is the reason at all. I think they stepped out on each other and it was all going to come to the surface, so David took hit first. It was no secret that Courtney and Brian were close. It just seems they grew apart and started seeing other people. They kept up appearances until it wasn’t going to wash anymore. That’s my take on it anyways.
Their issues are THEIR ISSUES, we’re all curious but the “unnamed sources” are going too far with their guess. Anyone that’s ever read anything about them could throw that out there.
“His interview on howard stern was a total PR move, to protect Courteney’s rep.”
Yeah, I kind of buy this. What I’m not buying is Courtney-the-saint-putting-up-with-an-eternally-immature-husband bit. I always got the ‘she’s a total bitch, he’s a little goofy (he’s an Arquette, after all), but harmless’ vibe from them.
I just think she was hot for that Brian .
It happens, so what. I do not care if Courtney has a boyfriend. I am to busy paying my rent and hoping I have enough for groceries. Whatever is going on between husband and wife is their business. Although any MAN who accepts his WIFE is seeing another bloke needs his head looked or is not that interested in her.