Lisa Kudrow just lately found a secret observe from her late good friend and “Friends” co-star Matthew Perry — one 12 months after the beloved actor’s demise.
Showing on the “Drew Barrymore Show” Tuesday, Kudrow, 61, revealed that the observe was penned by Perry through the filming of the “Friends” finale again in 2004.
“Matthew gave that to me at the end of our last episode,” Kudrow, who performed Phoebe Buffay on the hit NBC sitcom, instructed Barrymore.
“I had recently found the note that he had in it for me. 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.”
Perry died from a deadly overdose in Oct. 2023 at his Pacific Palisades, Calif. house on the age of 54.
He hid the observe inside a cookie jar that served as a prop from the well-known set.
Kudrow selected to not expose what the observe had mentioned, however added that “timing is everything.”
The actress beforehand defined simply how particular the cookie jar, which boasts a clock on it with the phrases, “Cookie Time,” was to her.
In 2020, she instructed Jimmy Kimmel that Perry cheekily swiped the prop from the set to offer to her.
“We’re shooting a scene, years before we were finished, and my line was, ‘Oh! I better get going,’ like, ‘Oh! I’m late, I better get going,’” Kudrow recalled, explaining that her “Friends” character was speculated to test the time as she spoke, however Kudrow didn’t have a watch.
“Because the phrases have been popping out, I went, ‘Oh, good, there’s a clock.’ I gestured to that, and mentioned, ‘Oh! Look at the time. I gotta get going.’ And through taking pictures, Matthew mentioned, ‘Did you look at the cookie jar and say look at the time?’ “
Perry gifted Kudrow the cookie jar when the present resulted in 2004.
“I think the first thing I asked was, ‘This was so nice — did you get permission?’ I mean, my car used to get searched every night when I left,” Kudrow laughed.
Final summer season, Kudrow mentioned that she started re-watching “Friends” as a method to honor her late co-star.
“Honestly, I wasn’t able to watch it because it’s too embarrassing to watch yourself,” Kudrow instructed the Hollywood Reporter.
“But if I make it about Matthew, then that’s OK,” she added. “And it’s just celebrating how hilarious he was — and that is what I want to remember [about him].”
Along with Kudrow’s character, the principle solid of “Friends” included Perry as Chandler Bing, David Schwimmer as Ross Gellar, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Inexperienced, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, and Courteney Cox as Monica Gellar.
Perry — who struggled with dependancy — was discovered submerged and unresponsive within the sizzling tub at his house in Los Angeles.
A variety of prescriptions have been present in his system together with ketamine, which was dominated as the reason for his demise.
An investigation into his tragic demise is ongoing.
