Courteney Cox mentioned that her late Associates costar Matthew Perry nonetheless “visits” her steadily.
“You understand, he’s simply so humorous. He has genuinely an enormous coronary heart, clearly struggled,” Cox, 59, mentioned in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning on Sunday, Might 19, whereas discussing the twentieth anniversary of the Associates finale. “I’m so grateful I set to work so carefully with him for therefore a few years. He visits me rather a lot, if we consider in that.” Perry performed Chandler Bing alongside Cox’s Monica Geller in each episode of the present’s 10-year run.
When pressed by the interviewer on her spirituality, the actress elaborated on her feeling that late household and mates reappear to information her via life.
“You understand, I discuss to my mother, my dad, Matthew — I really feel like there are a lotta folks that, I feel, information us,” mentioned Cox. “I do sense, yeah, I sense Matthew’s round for certain.”
Together with Cox and Perry, Associates’ ensemble forged included Jennifer Aniston as Rachel, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani and David Schwimmer as Ross. When information broke that Perry had died in October 2023, the forged launched a joint assertion expressing their grief.
“We’re all so completely devastated by the lack of Matthew. We had been extra than simply forged mates. We’re a household,” the forged wrote in a assertion to Us Weekly on the time. “In time we are going to say extra, as and after we are ready… For now, our ideas and our love are with Matty’s household, his mates, and everybody who beloved him all over the world.”
Two weeks later, Cox shared a clip from the sequence through Instagram together with a private story about her time with Perry.
“I’m so grateful for each second I had with you Matty and I miss you daily. Once you work with somebody as carefully as I did with Matthew, there are literally thousands of moments I want I may share. For now right here’s one in every of my favorites,” she wrote over a scene that confirmed the start of Monica’s relationship with Chandler. “On this scene, earlier than we began rolling, he whispered a humorous line for me to say. He usually did issues like that. He was humorous and he was type.”
The Associates sequence finale aired on Might 6, 2004, with an episode titled “The Final One.” Final month, an insider solely informed Us how the forged deliberate to rejoice the finale’s twentieth anniversary whereas honoring their late pal and former costar.
“The prospect of getting a reunion or a proper get-together with out Matthew is bittersweet. There might be an enormous void,” the supply mentioned within the April situation of Us. “[But] they know Matthew would’ve wished them to hold on and rejoice the present. In order that’s very a lot on their minds as they transfer ahead.”
