Lisa Kudrow revealed during an interview on “The Drew Barrymore Show” (via People) that she recently discovered a note the late Matthew Perry left for her inside the “Friends” cookie jar, which he gifted her after they wrapped filming the series finale in January 2004. Kudrow wouldn’t reveal what the letter said but mused: “Timing is everything.”
The revelation came after Barrymore asked Kudrow if she had ever stolen any props from the set of a television show or movie. Kudrow said she had but didn’t want to name the exact props, which had Barrymore wondering about the fate of the “Friends” cookie jar.
“Matthew gave that to me at the end of our last episode,” Kudrow said. “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…Timing is everything.
Kudrow, Perry and their “Friends” co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, Courteney Cox and David Schwimmer spent 10 years making the iconic NBC sitcom, which aired for 236 episodes. Perry died in October 2023 at 54 years old. Kudrow honored her late co-star at the time by sharing a photo of the two at the NBC Upfronts after they filmed only the “Friends” pilot.
“Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said, that my muscles ached, and tears poured down my face EVERY DAY,” Kudrow wrote in the emotional Instagram post. “Thank you for your open heart in a six-way relationship that required compromise. And a lot of ‘talking.’ Thank you for showing up at work when you weren’t well and then, being completely brilliant. Thank you for the best 10 years a person gets to have. Thank you for trusting me. Thank you for all I learned about GRACE and LOVE through knowing you. Thank you for the time I got to have with you, Matthew.”
Kudrow recently made headlines for revealing the “Friends” cast only met up once in the 17 years between the series finale in 2004 and the filming of “Friends: The Reunion,” which premiered on Max in 2021.
