Lisa Kudrow finds secret note from ‘Friends’ co-star Matthew Perry after his death: ‘Timing is everything’

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Lisa Kudrow recently discovered a secret note from her late friend and “Friends” co-star Matthew Perry — one year after the beloved actor’s death.Appearing on the “Drew Barrymore Show” Tuesday, Kudrow, 61, revealed that the note was penned by Perry during the filming of the “Friends” finale back in 2004.“Matthew gave that to me at the end of our last episode,” Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay on the hit NBC sitcom, told 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 fatal overdose in Oct.

2023 at his Pacific Palisades, Calif. home at the age of 54. He hid the note inside a cookie jar that served as a prop from the famous set.Kudrow chose not to divulge what the note had said, but added that “timing is everything.”The actress previously explained just how special the cookie jar, which boasts a clock on it with the words, “Cookie Time,” was to her.In 2020, she told Jimmy Kimmel that Perry cheekily swiped the prop from the set to give 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 supposed to check the time as she spoke, but Kudrow didn’t have a watch.“As the words were coming out, I went, ‘Oh, good, there’s a clock.’ I gestured to that, and said, ‘Oh!