Cameron Diaz credited therapy with her and Benji Madden’s long-lasting marriage.
The actress called it a “big thing” in their romance while speaking to brother-in-law Joel Madden on Wednesday’s “Artist Friendly” podcast episode.
“It’s what we depend on, so you have that commitment to work on it,” the “Back in Action” star, 52, said, explaining that it keeps her and Benji, 45, from doing “the same thing over and over.”
Diaz noted that therapy teaches them to ask, “Why didn’t it work? How can I make it work? What’s my part? What’s the other person’s work?”
She and the musician are now more “self-aware” and “a little bit more equipped to hopefully come out with a different outcome” next time.
The Golden Globe nominee clarified that they both have to “want … to do it.”
She insisted, “You can’t be in a marriage and have a family if … both people are not 100 percent every day. Nobody can be 99 and the other one be 100.”
Joel, 45, chimed in to reveal he and wife Nicole Richie are also in therapy.
“[It helps us] either resolve something or create a new understanding of a new process together,” the Good Charlotte member said.
He compared the practice to “going into the gym and learning new moves, building on strength.”
Joel and Richie, 43, have been married since December 2010 and share daughter Harlow, 16, and son Sparrow, 15.
As for Benji and Diaz, the couple wed in January 2015 and are the parents of daughter Raddix, 4, and son Cardinal, who arrived earlier this year.
While the duo have kept their relationship primarily private since it began in 2014, Diaz called her husband the “best thing” that’s happened to her in an April 2020 “Makeup & Friends” interview.
Benji, for his part, often honors his wife with Instagram tributes.
“Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife, best friend, best partner in everything, ride or die, greatest Mom to our little girl, @Avaline wine boss, family chef, advisor, collaborator and everything else,” he wrote last year.
