“Friends” and family! Genealogists at MyHeritage found that stars Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox are in fact 11th cousins, CNN reported.
RELATED: ‘Friends’ Cast Reveals Their Favourite Episodes, Talks ‘Seriously Emotional’ Reunion The pair, who played the couple Chandler and Monica on the show, share distant relatives William Osbern Haskell III and Ellen Haskell, who lived in England approximately 500 years ago.
Ellen eventually moved to America with her two sons in 1635, with Cox being related to her son Roger, while Perry is related to the other son William.
They are related through Cox’s mother’s side of the family and Perry’s father’s side. “We went into this line very deeply, we checked every name.
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