Throughout a current look on The Drew Barrymore Present, the Mates alum revealed that after his passing, she discovered a particular word Perry had left behind for her.

“Matthew gave that to me on the finish of our final episode,” Kudrow shared, referring to a cookie jar prop that Perry, who died in October 2023 from the acute results of Ketamine, had taken from the set.

“I had just lately discovered the word that he had in it for me,” she mentioned. “I hadn’t opened it up or seemed inside it. However yeah, he did. He had a word in there and I forgot about it.”

Whereas she did not disclose the contents of the word, Kudrow sentimentally added, “Timing is all the things.”

The No Good Deed actress — who additionally starred alongside David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc on the beloved NBC sitcom — beforehand defined the that means behind the sentimental reward, which is within the form of a clock and reads “Cookie Time,” throughout a 2020 look on Jimmy Kimmel Reside.

“We had been taking pictures a scene years earlier than we completed,” Kudrow recalled. “My line was, ‘Ohhh, I am late. I higher get going,’ and it was too late after I realized I haven’t got a watch. Because the phrases had been popping out I went, ‘Oh good there is a clock,’ and I gestured to that and mentioned, ‘Oh take a look at the time. I higher get going.’”

After the scene, she mentioned Perry approached her and requested, “Did you level to the cookie jar and say, ‘Take a look at the time?’” The revelation had the 2 “laughing hysterically and crying.”

Whereas Kudrow continues to be very a lot mourning Perry’s loss of life, final month, whereas showing on the most recent episode of Dax Shepard’s Armchair Knowledgeable podcast, the actress shared what “comforted” her about his  passing.

“This can sound odd. I am extra comforted that he was glad the day he died,” Kudrow mentioned. “He bought to die glad. And to me, that was a present.”

Shepard — who has been open about his previous struggles with habit — shared that he knew Perry “by sobriety.” The late actor battled with drug and alcohol habit.

“What addicts put everybody [who] love us by is tough,” Shepard mentioned. “I might be grateful to get to return and see it earlier than it had taken its toll.”

The podcast host famous that he feels “unhappy” and has a “lot of compassion” for what Kudrow goes by, and in addition seemingly went by as somebody who cherished an individual with habit, to which Kudrow famous that it is “difficult.”

“I cherished that Matthew I first met and the one on the finish, as a result of God cherished him, that is you, and I like you,” she mentioned. “I perceive, and so did he.”