Benji Madden Now Wife Cameron Diaz’s ‘Cheerleader’ After Being ‘Crushed’ by ‘Back in Action’ Flop

Cameron Diaz’s long-awaited movie Back In Action bombed at the box office, but husband Benji Madden is encouraging her to stay positive and working overtime to keep her spirits up, a source exclusively tells In Touch. 

“Cameron is pretty crushed by the terrible reviews, but luckily Benji has been going into overdrive to help her get past this,” the insider says. “He’s dropped everything to be there for her and just talk her off the ledge any time she gets upset, he’s the best cheerleader because he genuinely loves her so much and thinks she’s the absolute bee’s knees in every way.”

Back in 2017, Cameron, 52, lamented the long spats of time filming forced her to spend away from her family, especially considering her and the Good Charlotte guitarist, 45, were eager to start having children since tying the knot in 2015. By March 2018, The Mask actress announced her retirement from acting already four years since starring in her last movie, Annie.

“For me, it was just something I had to do,” Cameron told an audience at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit. “It felt like something I had to do to reclaim my own life. And I just really didn’t care about anything else.”

Cameron went on to have two kids with Benji, a daughter named Raddix, born in 2019, and a son named Cardinal, born in 2024, and launch business ventures, including a brand of wine, Avaline. Happily retired and focused on her family, as In Touch previously reported, it was her good friend Jamie Foxx that helped convince Cameron to join him and costar in the appropriately titled Back in Action, a buddy action/comedy.

Even though Jamie, 47, suffered his own misfortune during production, the hit to Cameron’s ego came hard after the movie released. Benjamin Lee writing for The Guardian called it “a low-effort comeback vehicle,” adding, “the film is only a half-victory at best,” while Ben Kenisgberg called it, “high-gloss junk from Netflix,” in his review for The New York Times.

Though, in an effort to boost wife Cameron’s spirits as the movie flops, Benji is “pointing out that none of the critics are slamming her personally and he’s also reminding her that what these people say really don’t matter in the long run.” 

“Sure, it sucks that this isn’t getting the reaction that she expected when she signed on, but at the end of the day, it’s all just noise that’s going to be forgotten about by most people in a week,” the insider adds. 

It’s unclear if Cameron will return to her reclusive retirement to focus on her brands and her family once again, but the source notes Benji is all for whatever she chooses to do and will support her 100 percent.

“What matters is that she’s got two healthy kids, a husband who loves her beyond words, wonderful friends, she’s healthy and her loved ones are doing great, overall life is good,” the source says. “Plus, she’s got a catalogue of work that proves she’s a talented actor, she doesn’t need the approval of these bitter critics.”