How Conan O'Brien REALLY felt about Matthew Perry filming Friends with his then girlfriend Lisa Kudrow

Conan O'Brien has admitted that he was 'jealous' of Matthew Perry erstwhile past woman Lisa Kudrow raved astir really funny her Friends costar was aft she first met him.

O'Brien, 61, and Kudrow, 60, dated betwixt 1988 and 1993 truthful they were successful a narration erstwhile Lisa filmed play 1 of Friends alongside Matthew, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, and Matt LeBlanc.

During an quality connected her ex's podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend, mother-of-one Kudrow revealed that she had been watching Friends a batch since Perry died successful October 2023 and described her costars arsenic 'phenomenally hilarious.'

Recalling her early days of filming, O'Brien said to Kudrow: 'You started doing that show and you called maine up and you were raving about...,' arsenic she vanished his condemnation and blurted out: 'Matthew!'

O'Brien continued: 'And you were saying, "he's truthful funny," and location was portion of maine that was... jealous. Like I was, "okay, I make you laughter beautiful hard," and you were like, 'No, no, you don't understand, this guy's really funny!"'

'No, I wasn't that bad!' Kudrow laughed arsenic O'Brien replied: 'No, you weren't, but I'm conscionable saying, I deliberation that's human.'

Kudrow reassured her erstwhile fellow and told him: 'Well, you are nan funniest personification I know,' arsenic O'Brien fired back: 'No, no, that's not what this is about...,' arsenic nan blonde character continued: 'One of nan funniest group I know... well, now it's difficult to hear, you see, but it is true, that's conscionable a fact.'

Referring to her precocious friend, Perry, again, Kudrow past said: 'He was specified a immense [talent]. I thought that Chandler character, erstwhile I publication it, I went, "Oh, they person a cheery character, that's good," that's each I heard.

'And truthful astatine nan array read, I conscionable did a double return astatine him. "Oh my God," that I ne'er moreover successful a cardinal years could person envisioned anyone playing nan characteristic for illustration that and pinch his ain hit and everything, it's his own,' she added arsenic O'Brien added: 'Impeccable timing.'

Speaking astir Friends, successful which she played nan hilarious Phoebe Buffay, Kudrow explained: 'I utilized to not beryllium capable to watch it astatine all. I mean, I'd spot it connected and beryllium mildly interested, and past I'd spot maine and say, "That's capable of that, I can't carnivore it."

'And past well, listen. After Matthew died, I could commencement watching nan show again because it wasn't astir me, it had to do pinch him for immoderate reason.

'And truthful I person started watching Friends. Not started for illustration play one, but location are marathons on, and I person spent astatine times, since he died, each time agelong watching nan show.'

The character besides concisely touched connected Perry's individual struggles amidst nan rising fame of Friends and said: 'Everyone was truthful excited and I deliberation for immoderate people, and he was decidedly 1 of them, it's, "oh my God, this will beryllium really good, everything will beryllium fixed now," and that's not really it goes.'

Perry, who battled constituent maltreatment for decades, sadly passed distant astatine nan property of 54 connected October 28 past year after accidentally drowning successful his jacuzzi successful Los Angeles.

In December 2023, an autopsy confirmed that Perry died from nan 'acute effects of ketamine' and drowning - pinch nan character having akin quantities of ketamine successful his strategy arsenic a infirmary diligent nether wide anesthetic. 

Since then, the LAPD has begun an investigation into nan circumstances of Perry's  death.

Earlier this month, it was reported that nan Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is 'confident' successful their investigation and readying to complaint 'multiple people' pinch supplier distribution resulting successful decease aliases awesome bodily injury.