David Arquette Admits He's Having a Nervous Breakdown
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David Arquette is losing it -- just ask him.
During another rambling, painfully honest radio appearance on the Howard Stern Show Wednesday -- his third since his split from Courteney Cox -- Arquette, 39, admitted he's on shaky ground indeed.
Even the unflappable Howard Stern was concerned. "Are you having a nervous breakdown?" the shock jock asked. "I believe so," a raspy-voiced Arquette replied.
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During his one-hour chat, Arquette said that "everybody is worried and concerned about me," and that he's seeing a psychiatrist weekly.
He admitted he's been partying pretty hard -- especially at a recent holiday party hosted by Adam Sandler, in which he drunkenly called Tom Cruise "Sean." "I was a little wasted," Arquette says. "Someone says 'Hi David!', and I said, 'Hi Sean! Then I realized it was Tom Cruise. And his beautiful wife [Katie Holmes] was there."
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Cruise wasn't offended, Arquette said. "Tom was cool about it...I was so embarrassed. I was like 'I gotta get the f*** out of here.'"
Why the heavy drinking? "I've been drinking a lot because I'm heartbroken," he said. "It's really a personal, traumatic thing."
But he added that he had a "semi religious" epiphany recently: "When I drink, I become a maniac." Arquette said he's not drinking at all anymore. "When you wake up and reality hits you, it's hard."
As he's said before, his estranged wife Cox, 46, "didn't want to be my mother. But I kind of need a mother."
He's lonely, too. "I want love in my life," he said. "I need love in my life."
The father to Coco, 6, wants more kids -- and he wishes the mom could be his ex girlfriend Drew Barrymore. "I know she is with Justin Long and everything, but would cool would an Arquette-Barrymore child be?" he said. "From a pure breeding standpoint."
He put another obscure rumor to rest: "I [am] not messing around with Kelly Osbourne."
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9So go check yourself into a nut house and shut up already. He's not helping himself by spreading his business all over town.
He truly is a pathetic, weak-minded individual. He needs to stop whining and get his crap together. If he's trying to get Courteney's sympathy by talking about what a loser he is publicly, it will backfire. Courteney is too good for the likes of him.
This dude is either suffering from some deep personal issues, or he needs to fire his stylist, one or the other, cuz that suit he's got on is nuts.
Oh David, dear David. It's not that hard to get this together my dear man. Here's how: 1) Stop going on Howard Stern. 2) Continue counseling. 3) Stop partying and drinking. Don't even go near a party if you're going to be tempted to abuse substances and call A-listers by another name not belonging to them. Career suicide & personal destruction rolled all up into one. 4) If you want to continue your marriage, pursue your wife. This means no more hooking up with loose women or any women, for that matter. Men are not okay either. Just keep it in your pants. Now, about pursuing her - that means going to counseling, making intentional strides to clean up your act by behaving as a responsible grown up, and realizing that at almost 40 years of age, you DON'T need a mother anymore (though it is great to still love your mom!); in fact, you're now the PARENT and so it's sort of important to act like one. 5) Above all, keep a lid on what should be personal. It doesn't build confidence in your spouse if you're behaving like an insensitive nimrod. See, it's just that easy. Good luck!
You're hurting, right David? Let me tell you what you need to, it's really not that hard: 1) Stop partying and drinking. Stop attending parties altogether where you'll even be tempted. 2) Keep up the counseling. 3) Quit going on Howard Stern. Period. 4) Keep your mouth shut about your personal life and reach out to your wife. If she says "it's over," then do your best to keep your chin up and start to move on. Moving in does NOT mean immediately hooking up with other women. It means coping with the loss of your marriage in a mature manner. 5) If you still love your wife, it's probably not a good idea to try to woo her by talking about potential "baby mama' candidates just yet for future Arquette offspring. Seriously, dude. You're too old to be this out of touch.
Uh...he means, he's immature, has no talent and no career so he's doing this for attention hoping to land something.
Of course you completely turn things around, Us.
what a loser!
I wish mel gibson, michael lohan,and jon gosselin could come to the same realization, they're bigger d0uches than him!