Cameron Diaz Reveals How Husband Benji Madden Supported Her Return to Acting: ‘He’s Just the Best’

Mar. 15, 2025

Benji Madden and Cameron Diaz in 2016.Photo:Donato Sardella/Getty

Donato Sardella/Getty

Cameron Diazis 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 ofBenji Madden, 45, during an Oct. 15 conversation atFortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, perE News.

Diaz’s upcoming projects, including theJamie FoxxfilmBack in ActionandShrek 5, mark the end of a near-decade hiatus from acting. After last starring in 2014’sAnnieremake, she shifted focus to family, marrying Madden in 2015 and welcomingtheir daughter, Raddix, in 2019. Theyannounced the arrival of their sonCardinal in March 2024.

“We were in the house for a long time, which was amazing,” theCharlie’s Angelsstar said of her break from acting. “So, I had to push myself.”

Benji Madden and Cameron Diaz in 2015.Noel Vasquez/GC Images

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.’”

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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.”

(Left-right:) Katherine Power, Cameron Diaz and Emma Hinchliffe at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit.Presley Ann/Getty

Presley Ann/Getty

Diaz is alsonow filmingJonah Hill’s dark comedy filmOutcome, reuniting withFeeling MinnesotacostarKeanu Reeves.

source: people.com