No one would blame Courteney Cox if she was fed up with estranged husband David Arquette, especially after his painfully candid Howard Stern interviews about their separation. So it’s remarkable how forgiving the Cougar Town actress sounds in her cover interview with Harper’s Bazaar. “If you didn’t hear the Howard Stern interviews and you just read quotes, I’m sure it seemed out of context, crazy,” she says. “I’m not saying there wasn’t some crazy behavior, but if you know who David is, you know what his intentions are, how honest he is, and how big his heart is…You can’t really get mad at David because he’s not a malicious person. He was dealing with things the best way he could.”
While the dumper should always to be nice to the dumpee after a split, we’re still impressed by Courteney here—after all, we wanted to lock David in a cellar and leave him there when all he’d done to us was make those old CALL-ATT ads. “I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I don’t think he’ll be doing more Howard Stern any time soon. He’s not out to harm. But I’m his biggest protector. I can’t help it.” She hasn’t totally given up on the marriage either. “We loved each other so much, and if anything I feel like we’ve been extremely successful at marriage. If it doesn’t work out, I will have huge waves of pain about failing in that department. But right now I don’t have that because I don’t know what the future holds and I guess because I have strong feelings for him.” If David’s post-rehab sobriety sticks, could a reunion come next?
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