After Courteney Cox and Matt LeBlanc’s tribute to the late Matthew Perry on Tuesday, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow have shared emotional posts about their Friends co-star on Instagram.
Perry, 54, was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment on October 28.
Dropping a behind-the-scenes picture with Matthew, Aniston on Wednesday shared a screenshot of a text conversation with the late actor. She also shared a clip from the show where Rachel bids farewell to Chandler Bing before leaving for her new job in Paris. “Oh boy this one has cut deep... Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before,” she began her long and emotional post.
The 54-year-old actress said Friends was more than a show, describing the American sitcom as a “chosen family” that changed the course of their lives forever. “We were always the 6 of us,” she wrote.
Aniston also mentioned how she brooded over Matthew’s text messages, especially one that he had sent out of the blue one day. Matthew had shared with Jennifer a picture of them laughing together on the set while reading lines alongside the text, “Making you laugh just made my day. It made my day.” The actress replied, “Aww, the first of thousands of times…” Referring to this message, the grief-stricken actress wrote, “In the last couple weeks, I’ve been poring over our texts to one another. Laughing and crying then laughing again. I’ll keep them forever and ever. I found one text that he sent me out of nowhere one day. It says it all. (See the second slide…).”
Jennifer confessed that the past couple of weeks had been extremely hard for her. “Matty, I love you so much and I know you are now completely at peace and out of any pain. I talk to you every day… sometimes I can almost hear you saying “could you BE any crazier?” Rest little brother. You always made my day…❤️🕊️.”
Schwimmer, who played Chandler’s college roommate and best friend in Friends, also took to Instagram a few hours later to pen an emotional note. “Matty, Thank you for ten incredible years of laughter and creativity,” he wrote. “I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery. You could take a straight line of dialogue and bend it to your will, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes,” the 57-year-old actor shared alongside a picture of the duo.
Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay in the American sitcom, also paid tribute to Perry in her note. Sharing a polaroid image of the duo, the actress wrote, “Shot the pilot, Friends Like Us, got picked up then immediately, we were at the NBC Upfronts. Then…You suggested we play poker AND made it so much fun while we initially bonded. Thank you for that.”
“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,” Kudrow also wrote in the note.
The 60-year-old actress ended her note by thanking the late actor for everything he had taught her and for the times they had spent together. “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.”
Friends ran for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004. It followed a group of friends navigating through the ups and downs of their lives in New York. In 2021, the cast and showrunners reunited after more than a decade in Friends: The Reunion, which streamed on HBO Max.
