He will never have been able to forget the love scenes they filmed together for the series Friends. This Saturday, October 28, 2023, the sudden disappearance of Matthew Perry quickly went around the world, and left millions of fans of Chandler and Monica inconsolable. The two protagonists of Friendsembodied by Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox formed THE iconic couple of the 90s. The two heroes played alongside Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow for several years. The stars also came together for a special 100-minute episode called Friends: Homecomingand in which the deceased had precisely participated, found dead at 54 in his jacuzziprobably from drowning.
But if Courteney Cox never truly fell in love with her playing partner, the latter never really managed to hide the feelings he quickly developed for her. As someone close to the actor revealed to US Weekly, Matthew Perry was madly in love with his friend, and never managed to forget her, even twenty years after the end of the series: “Matthew was always in love with her, he could never really move on”. But Courteney Cox has always rejected her friend, preferring American producer David Arquette at the time of the success of Friends. The two married in 1999, and gave birth to Coco Riley Arquette in June 2004. The latter’s godmother is Jennifer Aniston.
They met again last November
The couple finally divorced in 2012, but there was no question for Courteney Cox of falling into the arms of her gaming partner: she had a year-long love affair with actor and model Brian Van Holt between 2012 and 2013, and has shared the life of Irish musician Johnny McDaid, member of the group Snow Patrol. The two friends, for their part, met one last time in November 2022, at the time of the release of Matthew Perry’s autobiographical book, around a lunch that the actress immortalized in a post on Instagram: “Guess who I had lunch with today? I KNOW… I couldn’t be happier“. He will love her for eternity…