Friends actress Courteney Cox is learning how to navigate life as an empty nester.
Cox, 60, admitted she didn't initially realize how difficult the transition would be.
“It's weird how people get upset the first year their kids start school,” she said at the Inc. 5000's 45th Annual Conference and Gala, according to People magazine. It is said that he spoke.
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Courteney Cox, best known for her role on Friends, has overcome emotional empty nest syndrome and joked that her daughter “just won't talk to me”. (Getty Images)
“I thought, 'What's wrong? She just doesn't talk to me. She's always in her room.'”
Cox said she now understands how difficult it is to send her daughter, Coco Arquette, 20, to school. (Getty Images)
Cox went on to explain that she now understands how difficult it is to send her daughter, Coco Arquette, 20, to school.
“I thought, 'What's wrong? She just doesn't talk to me. She's always in her room.'”
“Then she came home after her first year of college…she was all grown up and started talking more,” Cox added. “And she's amazing. She's a really special, smart, funny kid.
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“But then I thought, 'I don't want you to go back to college.' … The second year was much harder for me.”
Cox has a daughter with ex-husband David Arquette.
Cox has a daughter with ex-husband David Arquette. (Getty Images)
In June, Cox and Arquette celebrated their daughter's 20th birthday on Instagram.
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“Happy birthday to the beautiful, sweet, gentle, sensitive and creative Coco. You always make me laugh. I love you so much,” Cox wrote on Instagram, along with a photo of her daughter over the years on a merry-go-round. I wrote it on Instagram while posting it. .
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Arquette posted a video montage of Coco on social media at the time.
“Happy Birthday Coco!!! I love you, I can't believe you're 20 today! I hope you have the best birthday and celebrate your brilliance!!!”
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Cox's latest comments at the event come nearly a year after her Friends co-star Matthew Perry passed away.
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In “Friends,” Cox and Perry's characters Monica and Chandler eventually became a couple. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images, AFI)
In May, she spoke about her beloved friend.
“I think he's probably one of the funniest people in the world. A really funny guy. He's got a really big heart. He was obviously struggling,” she said on CBS Mornings at the time. .
“I'm very grateful to have worked closely with him over the years. He comes to visit me often, if we believe so.”
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On “Friends,” Cox and Perry's characters Monica and Chandler eventually became a couple, sharing intimate and hilarious moments later in the series.
Perry passed away in October 2023 at the age of 54. The cause of death was determined to be “acute effects of ketamine,” and it appears he died by drowning in his home.
