Lisa Kudrow Shares Tribute To Late ‘Friends’ Co-Star Matthew Perry

Two weeks after Matthew Perry’s death, his Friends co-star, Lisa Kudrow, has broken her silence in on the death of her friend.

The actress took to Instagram to share her tribute to the late actor.

“Shot the pilot, Friends Like Us, got picked up then immediately, we were at the NBC upfronts,” Kudrow recalled. “Then… You suggested we play poker AND made it so much fun while we initially bonded. Thank you for that.”

Kudrow expressed immense gratitude that Perry was in her life.

“Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said that my muscles ached and tears poured down my face EVERY DAY,” she wrote. “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. Thank you for the best 10 years a person gets to have.”

“Thank you for the time I got to have with you, Matthew,” Kudrow concluded.

Kudrow joined her Friends costars Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox and Matt LeBlanc in a joint statement soon after news of Perry’s death broke.

“We were more than just castmates,” they wrote. “We are a family. There is so much to say, but right now we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss.”

Perry was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home. He was best known for playing Chandler Bing on Friends.

He had struggled with addiction for years, which he wrote about in his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.