Justin Theroux, who moved to Los Angeles to be with his fiancée, Jennifer Aniston, is missing life in New York and having a hard time adjusting to a new city, according to sources.
We’re told Theroux recently had a meltdown, telling friends about how he desperately misses his old life in Manhattan. “He was saying how he and Jen can’t go anywhere in New York because everyone sells them out, so they’re forced to spend most of their time in LA, a city he hates,” says the insider. “New York is his home, and he feels like he has to give it up for this relationship to work. He struggles with it.”
Aniston sold her two prewar condos — a one-bedroom penthouse and a one-bedroom on the 17th floor — at 299 W. 12th St. through a corporation in her dog’s name, Norman, in April this year, and picked up a mansion in Bel Air at about the same time. “Jen just couldn’t handle being watched so closely in New York,” the source explains. “She felt like the neighbors, doormen, everyone was spying on them.”
Theroux still has an apartment in the West Village, near Blue Hill, the romantic restaurant where he proposed, but we’re told the “Horrible Bosses” actress is uncomfortable staying there.
“There’s no doorman or security,” says the insider. ”It makes Jen nervous.”
The couple is currently living in Aniston’s California mansion. “Jen is fine being mostly in LA,” continued the source. “She’s used to a life of hiding in her big house and bringing the party to her. But Justin was in love with his New York livelihood . . . and he’s mourning it.”
They met briefly on the set of “Tropic Thunder” in 2007 and reconnected in 2010 with “Wanderlust.” They announced their engagement in August, after the actor’s 41st birthday. Theroux was previously in a 14-year relationship with live-in girlfriend Heidi Bivens, who moved out of their home in June 2011.
“He loves Jen but misses his old life. He’ s really conflicted,” adds the insider. A rep for Aniston didn’t get back to us last night. Theroux’s rep said, “This is false. They continue to remain bicoastal.”