CBB 2013: Courtney reveals why she fell for Doug
Celebrity Big Brother star opens up in exclusive interview
SHE opened up about her feelings when Star magazine joined her for an exclusive chat...
How do your parents feel about your husband being older than your dad?
Doug’s three years older than my dad! But I do get it, trust me, I’m not like: ‘Why are people raising their eyebrows at us?’ At first obviously my dad was like “No no, my 16-year-old daughter is not communicating with a 53-year-old Hollywood actor!” My parents actually got to know him through our email exchanges, now Doug never knew that my parents were monitoring all our emails, but my father was not happy.
What about your mother?
My mother is like my Siamese twin and she was like: ‘I can feel what you feel, I can see that he’s a good guy and I support this!” All the boys my age were sending me nasty emails, but Doug was such a gentleman. There wasn’t one thing that Doug was being perverted or weird about, and my mum saw that. When my father eventually met him he was like: ‘Oh my god this guy is so amazing, you have my blessing to marry him today!”
When you were emailing, what made you fall for him?
It was everything I felt and the way he treated me. He was such a gentleman and there wasn’t any of ‘I just want to get in her pants!’ or ‘I just want to use her for the way she looks!” His soul was so translucent and I could see through it. It’s hard to explain but when you feel it, you feel it and I just fell for him hard. I’ve been in love before so I know what it is, I’m not this naïve little girl.
