Matthew Perry gave Lisa Kudrow the “Friends” cookie jar in 2004. 20 years later and after his death, she found the note he left inside: “Timing is everything.”

Lisa Kudrow revealed this during an interview on “The Drew Barrymore Show” (via People) that she recently discovered a note left for her by the late Matthew Perry in the “Friends” cookie jar he gave her after filming wrapped on the series finale in January 2004. Kudrow wouldn’t reveal what was in the letter, but mused: “Timing is everything.”

The revelation came after Barrymore asked Kudrow if she had ever stolen props from the set of a television show or movie. Kudrow said she did, but wouldn’t name the exact props, which left Barrymore wondering about the fate of the “Friends” cookie jar.

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“Matthew gave this to me at the end of our last episode,” Kudrow said. “I had recently found the note he had in there for me. I hadn’t opened it or looked inside. But yes, he did. He had a note in it and I forgot it…timing is everything.

Kudrow, Perry and their Friends co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, Courteney Cox and David Schwimmer spent 10 years making the iconic NBC sitcom, which aired 236 episodes. Perry died in October 2023 at the age of 54. Kudrow honored her then-co-star by sharing a photo of the two at the NBC Upfronts after filming just the “Friends” pilot.

“Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said that my muscles ached and tears streamed down my face EVERY DAY,” Kudrow wrote in the emotional Instagram post. “Thank you for your open heart in a six-way relationship that required compromise. And a lot of “talking”. Thank you for showing up to work when you weren’t feeling well and then being absolutely brilliant. Thank you for the best 10 years a person can have. Thank you for trusting me. Thank you for everything I have learned about GRACE and LOVE from knowing you. Thank you for the time I had with you, Matthew.”

Kudrow recently made headlines when he revealed that the cast of Friends had only met once in the 17 years between the series finale in 2004 and the filming of Friends: The Reunion, which premiered on Max in 2021.

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