Cameron Diaz wasn’t ashamed to confess that she depends on remedy to make her marriage work.
The “Charlie’s Angels” actress, 52, appeared on her brother-in-law Joel Madden’s “Artist Friendly” podcast and stated that she and her husband, Benji Madden, 45, “depend” on sitting down with a therapist.
“Therapy is a big thing in our family, thank god,” she defined on Wednesday, earlier than sharing what she learns from the classes.
“So you have that commitment to work on it. To not just do the same thing over and over, trying to figure out if doing it again will work this time,” she stated.
Diaz continued, “Going like, ‘Why didn’t it work? How can I make it work? What’s my part? What’s the other person’s work?’ Be self aware and go into the next attempt a little bit more equipped to hopefully come out with a different outcome.’”
“You can’t be in a marriage and have a family if … both people are not 100 percent every day,” Diaz went on. “Nobody can be 99 and the other one be 100.”
Joel, 45, confirmed that he and his spouse, Nicole Richie, additionally go to remedy collectively.
The Good Charlotte musician in contrast remedy classes to “going in the gym and learning new moves and building on strength.”
Diaz married Joel’s an identical twin brother in 2015. The couple have two youngsters, 4-year-old daughter Raddix and 9-month-old son Cardinal.
In the meantime, Joel and Richie, 43, have been married since 2010 and so they have two kids: daughter Harlow, 16, and son Sparrow, 15.
On the podcast, Joel instructed Diaz that she and Benji have finished remedy “really well” collectively.
He additionally praised his twin brother for being “a warrior” who has “no fear in his body,” which Diaz agreed with.
Talking extra about her household, Diaz stated that marrying Benji and having kids was “the best thing that ever happened to me.”
“I was older than [Benji]. Like the fact that I hadn’t found him before … I was out there a lot longer than he was,” she defined. “You know how much we’ve grown over the last decade together and how much we accomplished. I don’t know how either one of us would have done that without one another.”
The “Bad Teacher” famous that she and Benji “wouldn’t have worked” as a pair in the event that they met earlier of their lives.
Diaz has stayed comparatively out of the highlight after she declared herself retired from appearing in 2018.
However she’s lastly set to make her comeback alongside her good friend Jamie Foxx within the Netflix film “Back In Action,” which debuts January 17. Manufacturing on the movie was paused for months after Foxx, 56, suffered a stroke.
“We had unfortunate circumstances,” Diaz stated. “Jamie had a stroke which was crazy. Thank god he’s okay. He miraculously recovered and he’s better than ever.”
