After news broke that Matthew Perry was reportedly found dead in his hot tub on Saturday, October 28, fans could only imagine what his closest friends and co-stars were feeling.
One actress of particular concern is Courteney Cox who starred alongside Perry for over a decade as his friend, girlfriend, wife and eventually mother of his children by the time the finale of hit series Friends came around.
Despite whether you watched one episode, or the whole series, it was impossible to miss the sweet chemistry that radiated between Monica Geller and Chandler Bing.
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Played by Hollywood super duo, fans were quick to fall in love with the pair, with many wondering if the actors continued their romance off-screen among other questions.
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After the filming of the sitcom wrapped up in 2004, the pair didn’t go their separate ways but rather worked on other projects.
In February 2013, the Just Before I Go actress guest starred on Perry’s NBC series Go On.
“She is fantastic, obviously. And my desire to show off in front of her is back in full swing,” the 17 Again star wrote on X at the time.
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A year later it was Perry featuring on Cox’s show Cougar Town. Seeing the pair together 10 years after Friends wrapped up was a treat for fans.
“It was so great to work with him. He’s so sweet,” the Scream actress said of her co-star during a January 2014 appearance on CONAN.
“When I worked with him on Friends, he literally gave me my personality for 10 years,” she added.
The stars later reunited once more during the iconic 2021 Friends reunion.
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Even beyond the set and their film projects the pair maintained a close bond, expressing their affinity for each other in multiple interviews.
After supporting Perry as he worked towards the release of his 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers and The Big Terrible Thing which delved into the star’s struggle with addiction, Cox also celebrated it’s success after publish.
“So proud of my friend Matthew Perry for writing this brave book and for making the New York Times Best Sellers list four weeks in a row,” she shared on her Instagram story at the time.
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Despite Perry admitting to having had a crush on all three of his female co-stars at some point during filming, neither of the relationships ever pushed beyond friendship.
“How can you not have a crush on Jenny, and Courteney, and Lisa?” Perry said in a 2022 interview with Diane Sawyer.
“So that made it kind of difficult to go to work because I had to pretend that I didn’t have these crushes.”
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In another interview Perry revealed that the friends and co-stars had a rule not to date each other in order to keep their relationships simple.
“If we were hooking up or if there was any strangeness going on it might mess with things,” he said.
Instead, the Cougar Town actress married David Arquette from 1999 to 2013 before divorce and now the star has been dating Johnny McDaid since late 2013.
Perry on the other hand never married but had romances with actresses Julia Roberts and Lizzy Caplan.