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! Look at the time. I gotta get going.’ And during shooting, Matthew said, ‘Did you look at the cookie jar and say look at the time?’ “
Perry gifted Kudrow the cookie jar when the show ended in 2004.
“I think the first thing I asked was, ‘This was so nice — did you get permission?’ I mean, my car used to get searched every night when I left,” Kudrow laughed.
Last summer, Kudrow said that she began re-watching “Friends” as a way to honor her late co-star.
“Honestly, I wasn’t able to watch it because it’s too embarrassing to watch yourself,” Kudrow told the Hollywood Reporter.
“But if I make it about Matthew, then that’s OK,” she added. “And it’s just celebrating how hilarious he was — and that is what I want to remember [about him].”
In addition to Kudrow’s character, the main cast of “Friends” included Perry as Chandler Bing, David Schwimmer as Ross Gellar, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, and Courteney Cox as Monica Gellar.
Perry — who struggled with addiction — was found submerged and unresponsive in the hot tub at his home in Los Angeles.
A number of prescriptions were found in his system including ketamine, which was ruled as the cause of his death.
An investigation into his tragic death is ongoing.
