Lisa Kudrow has admitted Matthew Perry’s death “wasn’t a surprise”.
The Friends star passed away from the “acute effects of ketamine” on October 28, 2023, at the age of 54.
He was undergoing treatment for anxiety and depression when he developed an intravenous ketamine addiction last autumn.
Speaking on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s podcast, Dinner’s on Me, Lisa opened up about the tragic death of her cast mate.
“It shook us up, I have to say,” she said.
“He (Perry) said it won’t be a surprise, but it will be a shock, and that was exactly right. So smart, that is true – it wasn’t a surprise, but it was a shock.
“It was a big jolt.”
Lisa continued: “Personally, I think he died happy. I think in the days around his passing, I think he was happy and excited about what’s happening next.”
The actress also revealed she rewatched old episodes of Friends while she was grieving the loss of Matthew.
“Schwimmer was hilarious. Matt LeBlanc was making me laugh out loud. Jennifer, come on, she’s so good, look what she just did,” she said.
“And Courteney, oh my God, you’re hilarious. How did you never get nominated for an Emmy? And Matthew, of course, at the time he was blowing me away.”
Lisa also admitted the whole cast only met up once in the 17 years between the broadcast of the final episode and the reunion special, which aired in 2021.
“We only had dinner, the six of us, once before, since the show had ended,” she confessed.
Despite the distance between them, Lisa said they “didn’t miss a beat”.
“It was so great that it was like, ‘We should do this more’,” she added.
