Courteney Cox on Visiting Her 'Partner' Johnny McDaid in England

Well, happy holidays, happy New Year, all that stuff.

Um, oh.

No, I mentioned... Well, they love you, man.

You are, as I mentioned in the introduction, from Alabama.

Do you care about this football game?

Are you paying attention to it?

Oh, my God, yes, I do.

You do?

Yeah.

Do you know what the score is?

Are you watching it backstage?

No, I haven't seen it backstage.

So, in other words, you don't really care about the game.

No, I do care about the game.

Oh, you do care.

You know, I'm doing a talk show, and I have to somewhat, you know, try.

Well, I'm doing one, too, and I'm watching it under my desk.

Oh, my God.

It's 7-7 right now, yeah.

Is it really?

Yeah.

yeah it's tied please don't say clemson oh i don't care really i mean yeah no for you i'm from alabama yeah yeah but for real i don't really you know yeah i didn't go to either i've never been to alabama honestly too you haven't yeah well that makes sense i mean it's pretty great once you get down there but there's no real stopping what to see vulcan i'm not sure why people go but yeah i'm from there so yeah of course it's your place and clemson is a that's such a rival for us so this is

It is for sure.

You're in London, I know.

And you had a hard time getting here.

Oh, yeah.

I was supposed to come back yesterday.

I'd been in London for the last 10 days.

And I was supposed to come back yesterday.

I got on the plane.

Well, no, before I got on the plane, they said, oh, the plane's delayed.

And I was like, oh, great.

What's going to happen?

And then they changed it.

They said, no, it's OK. Just get on.

And I got on the plane with my daughter, Coco.

We were on for like an hour just waiting there.

And they came on the announcement and said, the pilot has taken ill.

really and i was like wait a minute the plane i'm talking this big jumbo jet completely full i was like you don't know you're sick when you wake up you have to wait till we're all on the plane so we sat there for another hour and then they said you know what we've changed no we're going to fly you to new york but we can only we have a pilot that will take you to new york that's a shorter flight but then they change it and said what the plane's got full gas and you can't land it and it's just such a complicated thing

So what happened?

So I got off the plane, and I've got a flight to New York, because I just thought, I've got to do Jimmy Kimmel tomorrow.

Oh, thank you.

And yeah.

And then I flew to New York, spent the night like three hours, got back on a plane, and I've slept.

I'm so delirious right now, if I even make sense.

Oh, this is good.

I will ask you very personal questions then to see if I get it.

How is your man friend?

What would we call Johnny?

My man friend?

That's good.

I don't know if that would go over that well.

You were visiting him, right?

I was visiting him.

He's my partner.

That's what he calls it, partner.

And I'm from Alabama.

you don't really say partner unless you're in the same sex.

I see.

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

I always think that, too.

When they say partner, I'm like, uh, oh.

I mean, he's my guy.

He's my one.

Right.

But saying partner is difficult for me.

Like, I was in Atlanta not that long ago, and I was like, oh, I'm supposed to meet my partner at Section F. And they were like, oh, I'm sure she's going to be there.

Don't worry.

And I was like, oh, I mean, not that it matters, but it's just a different way to speak.

So anyway, I was over in England.

And we go to this place.

It's the most beautiful place called Babington House.

And it's outside of London, like 2 and 1 half hours.

And it's a place called Frome.

And this is our third year.

It's fantastic.

Oh, really?

We had dinner with all these really great, eccentric people.

And the next day, you wake up and you go to this pub.

And you walk for like 45 minutes to this small little place.

And I've never done that.

I've never actually been able to wake up the next morning and feel good enough to walk to the pub.

On New Year's Day?

Absolutely, yeah.

I mean, like I said, I'm from Alabama.

And so I did this time, and Coco and myself and Johnny and her friend Ella, we started walking through these fields.

And we were kind of far behind people, so we didn't really know where we were going.

But once we got there, I had a beer, which, you know, hair of the dog.

And next thing you know, I'm floating.

I had the best time, the last to leave.

From one beer?

Well, I was ignited from the night before.

I mean, I was so pickled.

Yeah.

So I shouldn't say that.

Anyway, so we start walking back.

And everyone had left earlier.

But we got lost.

So we started walking through these fields.

And I'm talking, they're huge fields.

And next thing you know, it says, do not trespass.

Oh, great.

And then we saw a shotgun, an empty shell shotgun.

And then we'd see an electrical fence.

Do not trespass again.

And we were so lost.

And it gets dark at like 3 in the afternoon there.

And it was getting scarier and scarier.

And the next thing you know, I'm like, oh, my god.

And we were following the lead of two teenagers.

Oh, great.

And that's not a great idea.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, and who are in a foreign country.

Yeah, but they're so, they know everything.

Uh-huh.

Did they have their phones out to at least figure out which way to go?

No, we didn't know anything.

Oh.

And so we saw some footprints and we were like, oh my God, there's footprints.

And they were, we found ourselves in like this field of rams.

And those are dangerous animals.

Oh, not the football team.

Actually, yeah, okay.

Really?

Oh, rams with the big horns and the whole deal.

Yeah, absolutely.

And do they look at you and threaten you?

Yes, and we were petrified, and then we had to run by an electrical fence to get out.

It was a nightmare, but it was one of the most fun days.

Yeah, it sounds really great.

45 minutes.

It took us, like, three hours to get home.

You had one beer, got drunk, and then went on a harrowing journey.