Matthew Perry gifted Lisa Kudrow the Friends cookie jar 20 years ago — she just found a note inside
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‘Timing’s everything,’ Kudrow said about the discovery. Lisa Kudrow has revealed she recently discovered an old note from her late Friends co-star Matthew Perry, which he’d left in a cookie jar he gave her from the show’s set. Perry, who played Chandler Bing on the seminal sitcom, died on October 28, 2023 from the “acute effects of ketamine” at the age of 54.
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During a Tuesday (January 7) appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, Kudrow, 61, spoke about the jar, saying: “Matthew gave that to me at the end of our last episode. “And I had recently found the note that he had in it for me,” she added. “I hadn’t opened it up or looked inside of it. But yeah, he did. He had a note in there and I forgot about it. Timing’s everything.”.
In a separate Instagram post, Kudrow, who starredas the lovable and easy-going Phoebe Buffay, honored Perry, writing: “Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said, that my muscles ached, and tears poured down my face EVERY DAY. Thank you for your open heart in a six way relationship that required compromise. And a lot of ‘talking.’”.
In 2021, the cast reunited on screen for the first time since the 10-season show celebrated its series finale in 2004, having become a pop culture phenomenon. Perry had been seeking treatment for depression and anxiety when he became addicted to intravenous ketamine, turning to “unscrupulous doctors who saw Perry as a way to make quick money,” Estrada said.
