The one where Carol becomes an energy healer.
“Friends” actress Jane Sibbett, who played Ross’ lesbian ex-wife on the sitcom, opened up about her decision to leave Hollywood for a different career in a new interview with People.
Sibbett, 62, told the outlet that she became passionate about energy and spirituality after moving to Hawaii with her then-husband Karl Fink around ten years ago.
“My husband and I split [when] we were in Hawaii, and I was on my knees because I was really brokenhearted by everything, and part of that was my stuff that I had to deal with,” Sibbett shared.
The “It Takes Two” actress, who hosted goddess circles for women before her move, recalled that after the split energy healer Abdy Electriciteh, with whom she was producing a documentary, asked her to help him produce a live energy healing event.
“It was a perfect synthesis of my belief in the gift of him [and] what he was doing and me coming off of ‘Friends,’” she explained, adding, “I’m really a shy person, and so for me to step up into a crowd and introduce him all day long to all these people and have a different story, each and every time, I started to feel the way that source energy or God energy was moving through me.”
“Then somebody said, ‘Hey, you were so good at that. I know somebody else who needs your help,’” Sibbett continued, “and so I went to one person, and then I did the next person, and I did the next.”
Sibbett noted that she didn’t have any formal training in her “dancing hands” technique that was inspired by Electriciteh.
“I wouldn’t call it Reiki,” she told the outlet. “[My hands] just started dancing because I was never trained in Reiki, so I wouldn’t even know what that is. I believe in it, I trust it [but] it’s just not what I do. This wasn’t trained. This just came in fully fleshed, immediately.”
Despite leaving Hollywood, Sibbett — who is working on a memoir about her career change — believes her acting experience actually helped her become an energy healer.
“I think every actor worth their salt knows that they are embodied by the character. At some point, you give yourself over, [so] I understand why my body is trained to let itself go,” she shared. “That’s part of the actor crisscross there.”
Sibbett appeared in 15 episodes of “Friends.” Her character Carol was involved in the first lesbian wedding on television.
Last year, Sibbett told The Post that she’s never watched the beloved sitcom in its entirety.
“I’m that girl who just doesn’t watch what she’s already done,” she said. “It’s really terrible.”
