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Courteney Cox and Johnny McDaid have broken up after over 10 years together, PEOPLE has confirmed.

The actress, 62, and musician, 49, have not yet released a statement, but were last seen together at the US Open in September 2025.

Watch: Courteney Cox on Running Wild With Bear Grylls. Post continues below.

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Cox met McDaid — who is a member of the band Snow Patrol — at the end of 2013 at one of her house parties.

The pair were properly introduced via their mutual friend Ed Sheeran.

By May 2013, Cox's divorce from Scream actor David Arquette was finalised. A year later, she and McDaid announced their engagement.

Cox later shared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that McDaid had proposed at her 50th birthday party, at close friend Jennifer Aniston's house.

She also said that her then-fiancé had asked her daughter, Coco, for approval before he got down on one knee.

"He said, 'I'd like to marry your mum' and gave her a little diamond ring. She said, 'Great, I'm going to camp tomorrow. Let's do it right now'."

"They made a plan to count down from three, and when they got to one, he was gonna get down on his knee and say, 'Will you marry me?' and she was gonna say, 'Will you marry him?' They planned it out, they found the perfect tree, with three branches that led to one trunk — it was just beautiful," recalled Cox.

Soon afterwards, in 2015, the couple decided to call off their engagement, briefly splitting for a few months.

The Friends star reconciled with McDaid the following year, but the couple didn't get re-engaged.

In 2024, Cox opened up about the separation, revealing that she and McDaid had decided to embark on couples therapy together.

The Friends star said she anticipated they were attending the session to strengthen their relationship, but McDaid had other ideas.

"We broke up, and it was really intense. We broke up in therapy," Cox recounted on the Minnie Questions With Minnie Driver podcast.

"I didn't know it was coming. He just broke up within the first minute. And I was like, what? We were engaged and I was so shocked. I was in so much pain."

She continued: "He wasn't trying to surprise me. He was in that much pain in the relationship. There was that much that needed to be dealt with that he had to protect himself around his heart."

Following the temporary breakup, Cox explained that they "worked" on themselves and their boundaries separately, before then reuniting.

"When we got back together, it was a different relationship, but also because it really taught me how I operated in the world," she noted.

"What were the things from my childhood that I needed? Like whether it was to be adored by men or things that I didn't know how to let go to be in a relationship. To not take things personally, my boundaries. I just went into myself and I had a great therapist."

This wasn't the first time Cox had spoken about their temporary spilt.

In 2016, when she appeared on the show Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Cox said: "I definitely have learned a lot, and no matter what, I will be a better person from that breakup."

During her time with McDaid, Cox credited the musician as a "great listener."

"I've never met someone more patient," she told PEOPLE in 2022. "He's a great advice-giver. I love his heart, his intentions. His morals. He's extremely talented and obviously musical, but he's a poet and a writer. He's just so smart, and I find that really sexy. And then he is gorgeous."

McDaid also previously said about his partner: "I know that I've never loved like I love this woman. So if that's enough, then that's enough. My thoughts are never without Court. She's my best friend. She's my partner, in everything. When I write her poems, it's just an extension of how I feel every second anyway."

Feature Image: Instagram/@courteneycoxofficial

*This article was originally published in 2024 and has since been updated.

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