Friends alum Lisa Kudrow discovered a note from late costar Matthew Perry inside the “Cookie Time” jar that he had gifted her following the show’s end.

Lisa Kudrow knows that the late Matthew Perry will be there for her even though he’s gone.

The Friends alum recently revealed that her costar—who died in October 2023 from the acute effects of ketamine—had given her a special note, but she didn’t discover it until after he passed.

“Matthew gave that to me at the end of our last episode,” Lisa said on the Jan. 7 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, referring to a notable cookie jar prop that Matthew had taken from the set. “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.”

And though she didn’t disclose the contents of the note, Lisa sentimentally added, “Timing is everything.”

The No Good Deed star—who also starred alongside David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc in Friends

“We were shooting a scene years before we finished,” Lisa said during a 2020 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “My line was, ‘Ohhh, I’m late. I better get going,’ and it was too late when I realized I don’t have a watch. As the words were coming out I went, ‘Oh good there’s a clock,’ and I gestured to that and said, ‘Oh look at the time. I better get going.’” 

After the scene, she said Matthew approached her and asked, “Did you point to the cookie jar and say, ‘Look at the time’?” The revelation had the two “laughing hysterically and crying.”

That type of laughter is exactly what Lisa—who shares son Julian, 26, with husband Michel Stern—will remember about Matthew following his unexpected death.

“Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said, that my muscles ached, and tears poured down my face EVERY DAY,” she wrote in a November 2023 tribute post on Instagram. “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.”

Noting that Friends was “the best 10 years a person gets to have,” Lisa concluded by adding, “Thank you for the time I got to have with you, Matthew.”

Read on to look back at moments the Friends cast has reunited over the years.

“Hi from the girls across the hall,” Aniston wrote on Instagram on Jan. 12, 2020.

The Friends ladies reunited at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Patron of the Artists Awards in Beverly Hills in November 2019. Cox and Kudrow presented Aniston with one of two Artists Inspiration Awards.

Monica and Chandler reunited in November 2019!

Joey, Monica and Rachel reunited for a fun night in October 2019.

“Halfway there… #girlsnight #?” Kudrow wrote in June 2019, teasing fans about a possible reboot.

The Friends ladies get together for Cox’s 55th birthday dinner in June 2019.

In December 2018, Cox supported her friend at premiere event for her Netflix movie Dumplin‘.

Also in June 2018, the two attended the Chanel Dinner Celebrating Our Majestic Oceans benefit for NRDC Malibu.

In June 2018, the two attended the American Film Institute’s 46th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to George Clooney.

In 2016, the two onscreen roommates reunited in London, baby! LeBlanc caught up with Perry backstage after the latter star’s performance in his play The End Of Longing, which marked his playwriting debut.

Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and Jennifer Aniston reunited for a 2016 NBC special dedicated to Friends director James Burrows. Matthew Perry was unable to attend as he was in London to star in his play The End of Longing. He did, however, appear in a videotaped message to introduce his former cast mates.

Kaley Cuoco  was overjoyed to get a picture with the cast. She wrote on Instagram, “Ummmm NIGHT MADE. Can’t breathe #friends meets #bbt @bigbangtheory_cbs I died and went to heaven.”

The two reunited at the 2016 WGA Awards,  appearing together onstage to present an award.

The two attended a screening of Just Before I Go, which Cox directed, in 2015.

The two attended the Phoenix House’s 12th annual Triumph For Teens Awards gala in Beverly Hills in 2015.

In 2014, Cox joined Kudrow at a premiere event for season two of the HBO series The Comeback.

Also in 2014, the ladies of Friends reunited on Jimmy Kimmel Live!…

…where Aniston and Kudrow competed against each other.

In 2014, Perry returned the favor and guest-starred on Cox’s show Cougar Town.

In 2013, Cox guest-starred on her Friends co-star’s show Go On.

In 2010, Aniston guest-starred on the season two premiere of her Friends co-star’s show Cougar Town.

Source: www.eonline.com