Courteney Cox Reflects on ‘Thousands of Moments’ with Her ‘Kind’ On-Screen Love Matthew Perry
“I am so grateful for every moment I had with you Matty,” the actress wrote following the loss of her TV husband Matthew Perry, who died at age 54 on October. 28
By Julia Moore Updated on November 14, 2023 04:57PM EST
Courteney Cox is reminded of the good times with her TV husband Matthew Perry after his death.
In an Instagram tribute on Tuesday, Cox — who played Monica Geller and wed Perry’s Chandler Bing on Friends — reflected on the loss of Perry, who died at age 54 after an apparent drowning at his home in L.A. on Oct. 28.
“I am so grateful for every moment I had with you Matty and I miss you every day,” she wrote alongside a clip from the hit NBC comedy.
“When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share,” she added. “For now here’s one of my favorites.”
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In the scene, Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) walks in on Chandler lying in bed. He excitedly shares that he’s getting married that day but once he left the room, Monica pops up from underneath the sheets and asks if Ross knew she was there.
“To give a little backstory, Chandler and Monica were supposed to have a one night fling in London,” Cox explained in her caption. “But because of the audience’s reaction, it became the beginning of their love story. In this scene, before we started rolling, he whispered a funny line for me to say. He often did things like that. He was funny and he was kind.
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After closing out their run as one of the most beloved TV couples when the hit ’90s sitcom concluded in 2004, Cox and Perry remained present in each other’s lives and often reunited — and shared some of those reunions with their fans.
In 2019, Cox posted a selfie on Instagram of herself and Perry, referring to Chandler’s iconic sarcastic tone as she wrote in the caption, “Guess who I had lunch with today….I KNOW!! Could I BE any happier? #realfriends.”
Their former costar Lisa Kudrow — who played Phoebe Buffay on the NBC sitcom — commented on the post, “Lucky lucky. #beautifulpeople.”
Their reunion came after Perry had suffered a gastrointestinal perforation that left him bedridden for three months. A source told PEOPLE at the time that Perry “was very sick when he was hospitalized; his condition was very serious.”
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The pair have shared other sweet moments on social media over the years, from returning to the screen together to celebrate birthdays and poking fun at each other in true Chandler and Monica style.
In 2013, Cox guest starred on Perry’s NBC sitcom Go On as a potential love interest for his character. Despite not being the right match, fans seeing loved the former TV couple back on screen together — and the stars loved it, too.
“Some ladies can even make a cemetery look good,” Perry wrote on Twitter, sharing a photo from filming with Cox.
She shared a photo from filming, too, as she called Perry her “first box husband,” referring to their on-screen love on Friends.
During the pandemic, Cox hopped on the TikTok train as she shared her own take on a viral dance to “Slidegang!” by Lil Jackie — and joked that her dance moves could be making her daughter, Coco Arquette, distance herself.
“Could this be why Coco and Johnny are socially distancing themselves from me?” she captioned the video posted on Instagram and poking fun at quarantine life with Coco and her longtime love Johnny McDaid.
Seemingly confused as to what he had just watched, Perry commented on the video, bringing his classic Chandler sarcasm as he wrote, “Hi honey, what the hell just happened?”