The actress is shedding light on how family factored into stepping away from and returning to the big screen
Cameron Diaz is shedding light on one of the main reasons she’s returning to the big screen: her husband’s support.
“He’s just the best,” Diaz, 52, said of Benji Madden, 45, during an Oct. 15 conversation at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, per E News.
Diaz’s upcoming projects, including the Jamie Foxx film Back in Action and Shrek 5, mark the end of a near-decade hiatus from acting. After last starring in 2014’s Annie remake, she shifted focus to family, marrying Madden in 2015 and welcoming their daughter, Raddix, in 2019. They announced the arrival of their son Cardinal in March 2024.
“We were in the house for a long time, which was amazing,” the Charlie’s Angels star said of her break from acting. “So, I had to push myself.”
Good Charlotte guitarist Madden, she continued, “was just like, ‘You’ve been supporting us and building the family.’ And supporting him in his businesses. He’s like, ‘It’s time for us to support you and let mommy ascend and do her thing.’”
Taking a step back from her screen career “felt like the right thing for me to reclaim my own life, and I just really didn’t care about anything else,” said Diaz. “Nobody’s opinion, nobody’s success, no one’s offer, no one’s anything could change my mind about my decision of taking care of myself and building the life that I really wanted to have.”
She added, “It really comes to what are you passionate about? For me it was to build my family.”
