Courteney Cox joins Bear Grylls for survival adventure in Ireland

TRALEE, Ireland, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Friends star Courteney Cox joined Bear Grylls for an adventure through the soggy moors of southwestern Ireland on an episode of Grylls' celebrity survivor show Running Wild with Bear Grylls.

At one point in the episode, Grylls suggests that he and Cox eat a dead sheep he found drowned in a bog.

Cox was visibly disgusted by the prospect, with even Grylls conceding the sheep was "pretty stinky."

Turns out the sheep was too putrid to consume, but that didn't stop Grylls from finding something edible from the animal.

Grylls told the story to repulsed hosts on Today, saying that though he and Cox couldn't eat the sheep, they did eat maggots from the sheep by placing the bugs in the sheep's testicles and boiling them.

"I filled the sac with maggots, boiled it up and gave it to her for dinner," Grylls laughed.

Grylls and Cox also made their way across a ravine by pulling themselves across a wire stretched from one side to the other.

Cox tweeted a photo of her sliding herself across with the caption, "And, yes, it was scary!"

Cox also got personal with Grylls talking about aging in Hollywood and giving in to the pressure to maintain your youth.

"I have learned lessons," Cox said. "I think I was trying to keep up with getting older. Trying to chase that ... it's something you can't keep up with."

"Sometimes you find yourself trying and then you look at a picture of yourself and go, oh God, I look horrible. I have done things that I regret, and luckily they're things that dissolve and go away," she continued, adding her new motto is "let it be."