How Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox have remained Friends for decades
I’ll be there for you …
No prizes for guessing the theme song this line is from. It’s the earworm or earworms, the feel-good tune to a show that’s as comforting as a cup of hot chocolate on a chilly evening
And if there’s anyone it really speaks to, it’s Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox.
“We’ve been through so many things together,” Jennifer says. “The show taught us the importance of camaraderie and really sticking together. And it’s taught me about being there for each other – I know, that’s the song, I’ll be there for you. But it’s true.”
The pair met on the set of Friends and became besties for life – and this was evident yet again when Jen teared up as she watched Courteney receive her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame recently.
“To be friends with Courteney is to be family with Courteney,” the 54-year-old star said in an emotional speech. “She’s responsible for all of that. From the beginning of Friends, she was immediately inclusive, warm, loving, interested in everything about you.”
Courteney (58) was teary-eyed too. “Thank you for showing up for me in public, the way you so often do in private,” she said.
Things have changed a lot since their Rachel and Monica days. Hearts have been broken, fortunes have been made, a child has been born and grown up, dreams have been dashed – but their friendship is as enduring and endearing as that twinkling tune that kicked off a sitcom sensation.
THEY’VE WORKED TOGETHER . . .
When they started out on Friends in 1994 there was an instant connection.
“We fell in love with each other and wanted to hang out,” Jennifer says.
They ate lunch together every day during the show’s 10-year run, even adopting each other’s eating habits. Courteney says she and Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe, started eating what they called “the Jennifer” – a cobb salad with turkey bacon and garbanzo beans.
“Friends made us inseparable,” Courteney says. “We just have fun, we laugh and it’s great.”
. . . AND THEY PLAY TOGETHER
