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David Arquette is opening up about navigating differing ranges of fame in a Hollywood relationship.

In an look on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Stay, host Andy Cohen requested the By no means Been Kissed actor whether or not he felt “inferior to” or “lower than” ex-wife Courteney Cox amid the peak of her Buddies fame. (Cox, 58, performed Monica Geller on the sitcom for 10 seasons, airing between 1994 and 2004.)

“Yeah, completely. It is tough. … I’ve a few of the conventional male issues the place I wish to like, you already know, present and decide up the verify and, you already know, be the breadwinner,” Arquette, 51, stated.

“Within the appearing world, usually, you are all the time happening this curler coaster of recognition and never capable of get a job,” he continued. “So it is like this bizarre factor. After which, if you’re evaluating your self to somebody who’s on the prime of the tv iconic world, it is type of arduous to place your self there.”

Arquette stated the now-exes “positively” had been “studying and coping with that” all through their time collectively. However there was nonetheless “quite a lot of ache and arguments” in addition to “ego” early on.

Explaining how the pair navigated the scenario, Arquette stated: “A variety of it has to do with the best way you take issues, the best way you are saying issues, the best way you are responding to issues, the best way you are permitting different, form of, exterior influences have an effect on how you are feeling about your self.”

“I feel constructing confidence or simply specializing in your self, like understanding a few of the ache and trauma that I had in order that I may open up and personal form of what makes me completely satisfied, what my wants are, the place my boundaries are,” he continued. “However we had a extremely great point on the finish. I simply suppose lots of people find yourself when relationships finish and legal professionals become involved, they actually form of battle quite a lot of the time they usually find yourself actually preventing and spending some huge cash to legal professionals the place they need to be form of splitting with one another.”

He added, “I simply encourage folks to actually attempt to work it out.”

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The 2 Scream costars had been married from 1999 to 2013. Regardless of their separation, Cox and Arquette have managed to forge a friendship whereas co-parenting their 18-year-old daughter, Coco.

In a 2020 interview with Yahoo! Leisure, Arquette opened up about his “actually nice relationship” with the Cougar City alum. “We’re pals, and we have communicated rather a lot due to Coco,” he defined.

However Arquette admitted that this course of hasn’t all the time been straightforward, particularly when it got here to elevating Coco in her teenage years.

“We have simply been actually open and supportive of one another. We by no means went head-to-head, [or] battled one another, by way of the method of divorce and thru the method of elevating our child,” he stated. “So it is made for a friendship and relationship that’s out of respect.”

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Arquette additionally shares sons Charlie West, 9, and Augustus Alexis, 6, with spouse Christina McLarty. In the meantime, Cox is at the moment relationship Snow Patrol member Johnny McDaid.