Lisa Kudrow found a secret note from Matthew Perry after his death

Lisa Kudrow discovered a hidden note from Matthew Perry about a year after the actor he died.

61-year-old Kudrow said Drew Barrymore on Tuesday, January 7, part The Drew Barrymore Showthat she “recently found” a note Perry had written to her while the pair were working on the final episode Friends in 2004.

Perry, who died in October 2023 aged 54 after suffering the acute effects of ketamine, put the note in a cookie jar prop he took from the hit TV show. comedy series‘set. “Matthew gave it to me at the end of our last episode,” Kudrow told Barrymore, 49. “I recently found a note that he had for me. I didn’t open it or look at it. But yes, he did. He had a note and I he forgot about him.”

Kudrow did not say what was written inside the note, but added that “timing is everything.”

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The cookie jar was a familiar prop Friends set, constructed to resemble a clock with “Cookie Time” written across it. Kudrow, who played the eccentric Phoebe Buffay on the show, which began in September 1994 and spent a decade on television, recalled the poignant memory of the glass during her 2020 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

“We shot the scene years before we finished,” Lisa told Kimmel, 57, on the talk show in May 2020. “My line was, ‘Ohhh, I’m running late. I’d better go,” and it was too late when I realized I didn’t have my watch. As the words came out, I said, ‘Okay, here’s the clock,’ and I pointed to it (the cookie jar) and said, ‘Look at the time.’ I’d rather go.'”

Kudrow added that Perry, who played the hilarious Chandler Bing, walked up to her after her comment and said, “Did you point to the cookie jar and say, ‘Look at the time’? to which both Kudrow and Perry laughed.

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Perry’s death was decided the accident two months after he was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home. The actor was pronounced dead on October 28, 2023.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office released a toxicology report concluding that Perry died from the effects of ketamine with drowning, coronary heart disease and the effects of buprenorphine (used to treat opioid abuse) listed as contributing factors.

IN tribute to Perry posted on Instagram on Nov. 15 of that year, Kudrow wrote, “Thank you for making me laugh so hard over something you said that made my muscles hurt and brought tears down my face EVERY DAY. 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 feeling well and then being absolutely brilliant.’