Courteney Cox Shares Her 1 Parenting Regret With Daughter Coco Arquette
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The "Friends" star raised her daughter with actor David Arquette.
Courteney Cox is looking back on her parenting with a critical eye.
On a podcast episode released Wednesday, the “Friends” star revealed that she wished she’d been a “firmer parent” when raising her now-19-year-old daughter, Coco Arquette.
“I wish so bad that I could’ve realized in the moment a way to protect Coco from things that I didn’t because of my own issues, whether it was codependency or seeing her in relationships with people that I knew, ‘This was not good,’” Cox said on actor Minnie Driver’s “Minnie Questions” podcast.
“But I didn’t want to step in ― even though I knew something wasn’t right ― because she would get so mad at me,” Cox said, adding that her daughter would say things along the lines of “Let me deal with it mom. You don’t understand.”
“And I did understand. And I should’ve trusted myself and I should’ve stepped in,” Cox explained. “Earlier on when she was a kid, or not even that many years ago, I wish I’d been a firmer parent.”