Courteney Cox once made a shocking confession about Brad Pitt after the Hollywood star divorced from her Friends colleague Jennifer Aniston.
Cox and Aniston were best friends, so for her to come out with something like this must have at least partially driven a wedge between them.
Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston go way back to their Friends days
Cox and Aniston have been friends - and Friends - since they met while filming the hugely popular sitcom back in 1994.
No sooner had they started working together, the pair hit it off, and that was still the case when Aniston - who played Rachel -split from Pitt in 2005 after he left her for his Mr and Mr Smith co-star Angelina Jolie.
Naturally, Aniston was devastated by this, and found it difficult to hide her anguish when asked about it by a Vanity Fair reporter.
In that article, it spoke of how she looked as if she had been ‘stabbed in the heart’ when asked to address rumors that Pitt and Jolie were already expecting a baby together, and the reporter then claimed that Aniston cried silently for several minutes before being eventually unable to address the question.
Apparently, she’d been told that he wanted to spend some time living the single life, and not shacking up with another woman.
So, this news clearly came as a surprise to Jen, who was told there was no truth behind rumors of an affair.
In a later spread for W magazine that showed Brad and Angelina together, the pair were described as enjoying ‘Domestic Bliss’ - a title that clearly got to Brad’s ex, particularly as it emerged that the concept was created by Brad himself and he retained international rights and therefore turned a profit from the shoot.
In another interview, she said: “There’s a sensitivity chip that’s missing,
“He makes his choices. He can do—whatever. We’re divorced, and you can see why.”
However, there was more to come.
Courteney Cox then came to Brad Pitt’s defence
Long-time friend to Jen, it must have been a surprise when Courteney came out in support of Brad.
She said: “I don’t think he was trying to hurt Jen,” she said.
“I don’t think that Brad is malicious, or a liar.
“The W thing [the magazine spread] was his idea, but I don’t think he thought that one through, about what it would look like to anyone else.”
She also claimed that Brad had been honest with Jen about his crush on Angelina.
Calling it ‘an attraction that he fought’, she said: “I don’t think he started an affair physically, but I think he was attracted to her.
“There was a connection, and he was honest about that with Jen.
“Most of the time, when people are attracted to other people, they don’t tell.
“At least he was honest about it.”
Nowadays, things are quite different, and all three are friends again.
Brad has split up from Angelina, although he did receive some backlash for seeming to call his marriage to Jen ‘boring’ in 2011.
He apologized, calling Jen ‘an incredibly giving, loving, and hilarious woman’ and adding: "The point I was trying to make is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself - and that, I am responsible for."