'Friends' star Courteney Cox almost left Hollywood in the '80s, father told her it was 'time to pack it in'

This week, Courteney Cox's personage was cemented into nan crushed connected nan Hollywood Walk of Fame pinch nan character receiving her very ain star. But things could person taken a drastic move had she discontinue erstwhile her begetter told her that her clip successful Hollywood was up.

"My dada thought I should springiness up, really," Cox admitted connected "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" connected Tuesday.

"What happened was I hadn't worked successful a agelong clip and I only had capable money to unrecorded astir 2 weeks, and really eat. That was it," she admitted of her days arsenic a struggling actor.

"So I was talking to my dada and he was like…‘You request to travel home… It's a agelong autumn from Los Angeles to Birmingham and it's clip to battalion it in.'"

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Courteney Cox shared nan alternate profession way her begetter wanted her to prosecute erstwhile she was struggling arsenic an character successful Hollywood. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Deadline Hollywood)

Cox's precocious begetter was a excavation salesman.

"'You are a salesman. You're a d--- bully salesman and you request to do what you do best,'" Cox recalled her begetter telling her.

Admitting she knew nan excavation manufacture was a fallback, Cox was saved by her large break.

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"I was like, ‘Dad…' and past nan adjacent time I sewage a telephone saying nan audition I had gone connected for ‘Family Ties,' I sewage nan portion arsenic Michael J. Fox's woman for nan past 2 years."

Cox starred arsenic Lauren Miller successful nan sitcom from 1987 done 1989. She would later spell connected to prima successful "Friends" and nan "Scream" franchise.

Courteney Cox says that erstwhile she landed nan domiciled of Lauren Miller successful "Family Ties," she was virtually afforded nan opportunity to enactment successful Los Angeles. (NBC/NBCU Photo Bank)

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Cox shared to Kimmel that her begetter wasn't upset that she remained successful California.

"He loved Hollywood. He loves movies, and he loves television."

Kimmel's woman Molly McNearney attended nan ceremonial connected Hollywood Boulevard and heard Cox show this communicative live, erstwhile thing mysterious happened.

Courteney Cox's "Friends" co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow showed up to support her astatine her Walk of Fame ceremony. (Gilbert Flores/Variety)

Kimmel aired nan infinitesimal from nan ceremonial erstwhile Cox shared nan anecdote and past thanked her sisters for flying into nan metropolis to celebrate.

"My mom would person loved this truthful much," Cox told nan crowd, which was afloat of stars for illustration Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and Laura Dern, "but my Dad was obsessed pinch television."

Just arsenic she mentioned her father, a flood of h2o collapsed done nan seal of nan shelter covering nan event.

Courteney Cox received her prima connected nan Hollywood Walk of Fame connected Monday. (Gilbert Flores/Variety)

"Wow! Sorry, Dad," Cox joked.

"If that isn't a connection from nan excavation business above, I don't cognize what is," Kimmel told Cox backmost successful nan studio, to which Cox agreed.

Cox antecedently told Fox News Digital that "not successful a cardinal years" did she judge she would ever unafraid a prima pinch her name. 

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"I'm from Birmingham, Alabama… That's conscionable not thing you deliberation would beryllium a possibility, but I did cognize that ‘Friends’ was special," she admitted.