Cameron Diaz says she and husband Benji Madden "depend on" family therapy.
Cameron Diaz says therapy is hugely important to maintaining a healthy family
The 'Holiday' actress, 52, and the 45-year-old Good Charlotte rocker - who are parents to Raddix, five, and eight-month-old Cardinal – rely on therapy to be "equipped" at dealing with the times they are “mad at each other” and don’t want to be in the same room.
Speaking on her brother-in-law Joel Madden’s 'Artist Friendly' podcast, she said: “So therapy is a big thing in our family, thank god.
“It’s what we depend on, so you have that commitment to work on it.”
Cameron says therapy prompts them to address: “Why didn’t it work? How can I make it work? What’s my part? What’s the other person’s work?”
She continued: “Let’s be self-aware and go into the next attempt a little bit more equipped to hopefully come out with a different outcome.”
The 'What Happens in Vegas' star says showing up to therapy shows their "commitment" to their marriage.
She added: “Even if you’re mad [at] each other and don’t want to see each other [or] sick of each other it’s still 100 per cent commitment to the marriage and to the partnership and getting things in the family.
“If it’s not 100 per cent it just doesn’t work if one person is at a deficit.”
Meanwhile, Cameron recently praised her spouse for encouraging her back to work.
The movie star stepped away from the spotlight following the release of her 2014 flick 'Annie' and is making her big-screen comeback in 'Back In Action', but she acknowledged she really had to "push" herself out of her comfort zone because she was content staying at home with her family.
Speaking at Fortune's Most Powerful Women summit in October, she said of her comeback: “It was just the right time for my family. After Covid, we were in the house for a long time, which was amazing and the problem was we would probably stay there, we would still be there right now.
"People would be like, ‘It’s over’ and I’d be like, ‘No it’s not, it’s not over for me.'
“So I had to push myself; my husband and I — my husband, who is the best — he was like, ‘You’ve been supporting us and building the family’ and supporting him in his businesses, he’s like, ‘It’s time for us to support you and let Mommy ascend and do her thing.’
"He’s like, ‘Let me see you do it girl.’ I was like, ‘Alright, here we go.'"
Cameron insisted stopping acting was the "right thing" for her to do at the time in order to "reclaim" her life.
She said: “It was something I just had to do. It felt like the right thing for me to do to reclaim my own life and I just really didn’t care about anything else.
"Nobody’s opinion, nobody’s success, no one’s offer, no one’s anything could change my mind about my decision of taking care of myself and building the life that I really wanted to have.
“It really comes to what are you passionate about? For me it was to build my family.”
And when it came to Netflix's 'Back in Action', the 'Mask' star couldn't turn down the chance to work with her 'Annie' and 'Any Given Sunday' co-star Jamie Foxx again.
She said: "I couldn’t say no to Jamie. He said, ‘Come with me’ and I said, ‘OK let’s do it;’ it’s our third film together so it’s really great.”
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