Courteney Cox breaks silence over Spare claims
Courteney Cox has finally addressed her unexpected cameo in Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, debunking the Duke’s claims.
In the book, Prince Harry shared an anecdote about going to the Friends actress’s home where he’d helped himself to a “box of black diamond mushroom chocolates” in her fridge that led to a wild, hallucinatory trip.
After unveiling her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the 58-year-old actress confirmed to Variety that the royal had once stayed at her house for “a couple of days”, but denied she’d been the one offering up the mushrooms.
“He did stay here for a couple of days — probably two or three. He’s a really nice person,” she said.
“I haven’t read the book. I do want to hear it, because I’ve heard it’s really entertaining. But yes, it’s gotten back to me about it. I’m not saying there were mushrooms! I definitely wasn’t passing them out.”
In Prince Harry’s best-selling memoir, he admitted he had become a “Friends fanatic” after becoming engrossed in the series while dealing with mental health issues and panic attacks after his second tour of Afghanistan in 2013.
In the years following, during a trip to Los Angeles with a friend, he’d spontaneously crashed at Cox’s house while party-hopping.
“We went from the home of [my friend] Thomas’ girlfriend to the home of Courteney Cox. She was a friend of Thomas’ girlfriend, and had more room. Also, she was travelling, on a job, and didn’t mind if we crashed at her place,” Harry wrote.
“No complaints from me. As a Friends fanatic, the idea of crashing at Monica’s was highly appealing. And amusing. But then … Courteney turned up. I was very confused. Was her job cancelled? I didn’t think it was my place to ask. More: Does this mean we have to leave?”
“She smiled. Of course not Harry. Plenty of room,” he said. “Great.”
The story was one of many eyebrow-raising revelations in Harry’s memoir, including details of private clashes with Prince William, a story about losing his virginity, and recounting having a frostbitten penis while he attended William and Kate’s wedding.
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