{"id":317351,"date":"2026-02-26T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:34:10","slug":"courteney-cox-was-too-scared-watching-scream-7-to-use-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317351\/","title":{"rendered":"Courteney Cox was too scared watching ‘Scream 7’ to use bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s safe to say that Ghostface has traumatized Courteney Cox<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

The actress, who is reprising her role as opportunistic reporter Gale Weathers in Scream 7<\/a>, recently revealed that she attended an early screening of the slasher sequel and was so frightened by it that she was afraid to leave the theater to use the bathroom.\n<\/p>\n

“I’m scared of everything anyway,” Cox admitted on Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Show. She added, “I’m just a real jumpy person\u00a0\u2014\u00a0birds, things, you name it.”\n<\/p>\n

But she also had a reasonable explanation for why she was particularly afraid of taking a mid-movie bathroom break.\n<\/p>\n

Courteney Cox on ‘The Tonight Show’ with Jimmy Fallon.<\/p>\n

Todd Owyoung\/NBC<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

“In Scream, there is one where Ghostface is under a bathroom stall,” she explained. “So when you go to a bathroom anywhere I’m just waiting to see those black boots come down. Or parking lots! It doesn’t matter!”\n<\/p>\n

If Ghostface has proven one thing, it\u2019s that they’re not afraid to attack someone at their most vulnerable. The masked murderer attempted to kill Sidney (Neve Campbell) in a bathroom in the original 1996 Scream, and succeeded in offing Phil (Omar Epps) in a movie theater bathroom stall in the 1997 sequel.\n<\/p>\n

“I had to go to the bathroom and I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m too scared to go to the bathroom,'” Cox confessed.\n<\/p>\n

Naturally, she tried to get her daughter, Coco Arquette, to come with her. “And [Coco’s] like, ‘I don’t want to miss the movie!'” she recalled. “So we called each other, I was on the phone.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Cox then attempted to spook her daughter, but the prank didn’t quite land.\u00a0“I tried to be Ghostface, and I don’t sound good doing it. I was like, ‘Do you like scary movies?'” Cox said. “I couldn’t do it! She’s like, ‘Mom, you’re so\u2026 dumb.'”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Cox also teased what fans of the franchise can expect from Scream 7.\n<\/p>\n

“Sidney Prescott is back. And her daughter, [played by] Isabel May\u2026 she’s incredible. Anyway, it’s a mother-daughter relationship and it’s a real tearjerker,” she said.\u00a0“No, I’m just kidding! It’s scary and good, but there is heart.”\n<\/p>\n

Scream 7 hits theaters Friday. Watch Cox discuss the film in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s safe to say that Ghostface has traumatized Courteney Cox. The actress, who is reprising her role as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-317351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}