Courteney Cox and David Arquette called it quits after 11 years of marriage. And David called Howard Stern‘s Sirius Satellite radio show Tuesday morning to talk about it.
David said during the conversation, “It breaks my heart…I’ve been begging Courteney to get back with me,” he added. “She’s conflicted too.”
According to Arquette, 39, he implied that Cox, 46, grew tired of his kooky ways.
For their 11th wedding anniversary, which was this past June, she bought him a motorcycle. “She said to me, ‘I don’t want to be your mother anymore,’” he said. “And I appreciated that about her … She didn’t want to tell me, ‘Don’t do that.’ She didn’t want to nag me anymore.”
But, according to David, he started doing things that would embarrass her. It was charming at first, when the couple met in 1996, but “it got old”.
When they started filming Scream 4 in Ann Arbor, Mich., this past summer, he said he was “feeling distance.” He said they hadn’t been intimate “in a month or so.”
He said he told her, “‘If you’re not my mother anymore, I am going to be myself.’”
So, David went out with the younger castmates to have fun. “She wants me to be who I am,” he said. “She needs to make that decision if this is person she wants to spend her life with or not.”
But, also according to Arquette, Cox also has had “her issues. She tries to take on everybody’s problems. She’s the mother to everyone. That’s why she doesn’t want to be the mother to me anymore.”
He denied that either cheated.
Arquette wanted to stress that he and Cox are “still tight. I love her with all my heart and she loves me with all her heart … We’re trying to get real with each other, real with ourselves.
“I want her to be happy,” he later said, “more than I was happiness for myself.”