After 11 years of marriage one of my favorite Hollywood couples had decided to call it quits. Courteney Cox and David Arquette have ended their marriage. One day after making the announcement, David phoned Howard Stern’s radio show to set the record straight.

“It breaks my heart,” he said of their decision to separate, adding that he is “not the one” that wanted the separation. “I’ve been begging Courteney to get back with me,” he later added. “She’s conflicted too.” Wow, I know I shouldn’t be, but I really am shocked. I just thought their marriage was solid and that they were a Hollywood couple in it for the long haul.

During his very candid conversation, Arquette, 39, implied that Cox, 46, grew tired of his kooky ways. For their 11th wedding anniversary this past June, she bought him a motorcycle. “She said to me, ‘I don’t want to be your mother anymore,’” he recalled. “And I appreciated that about her, she didn’t want to tell me, ‘Don’t do that.’ She didn’t want to nag me anymore.”

Without getting into it in great detail, Arquette said that he had started doing things that would “embarrass” his wife publicly. His kooky behavior probably seemed “charming” to her when they first met on the set of “Scream” in 1996, he said. “But that stuff starts getting old.”

By the time they started filming “Scream 4″ in Ann Arbor, Mich., this summer, he said he was “feeling distance, ” and said they hadn’t been intimate “in a month or so.” He said he remembers telling her,“If you’re not my mother anymore, I am going to be myself.”

David began going out with the younger cast mates and having fun. “She wants me to be who I am,” he said of Cox. “She needs to make that decision if this is the person she wants to spend her life with or not.” Courteney has also had “her issues,” Arquette said. “She tries to take on everybody’s problems. She’s the mother to everyone. That’s why she doesn’t want to be the mother to me anymore.” Yes we know. It’s exhausting!

Since their split Arquette confirms that he has gotten intimate with L.A. cocktail waitress Jasmine Waltz, but he stressed, “I am a single man”, and they are no longer together. As for reports this past spring that Cox was getting cozy with her “Cougar Town” costar Brian Van Holt, Arquette said he confronted her and she denied an affair.

“I do believe her. I truly don’t think she ever had an affair,” he said, adding that if anything perhaps they formed an “emotional” bond. When asked if she ordered the separation because she wanted to see other people, Arquette said, “Maybe. I don’t know.”

Arquette wanted to stress that he and Cox are “still tight”. “I love her with all my heart and she loves me with all her heart. We’re trying to get real with each other, real with ourselves.” “I want her to be happy,” he later said, “more than I want happiness for myself.”

What a sweet and beautiful thing to say. I hope they are able to work things out, and if not I wish them both the best on their own personal journey of love, joy, success, and most of all peace.

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