“Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker, bad experiences in love just make it that much better when you finally get it right.

“I always tell the younger women that I’m around — and I seem to be around more and more younger women; I’m the older person lately — I always tell them to relish having made a bad choice, as long as they’re safe and not in any way hurt physically,” the “Sex and the City” star told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira.

“The emotional part of that — you must look back on that and really love that time that you thought ‘I’ll never get over this. I’ve made such a terrible choice. He’s broken my heart,’ ” she added. “And I think later in life, you really think, ‘God, that was fantastic. Those were the salad days.’ ”