Conan O’Brien was ‘jealous’ when ex Lisa Kudrow praised Matthew Perry during ‘Friends’ fame
nypost.combe any more jealous? On the latest episode of his podcast, “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” O’Brien, 61, reminisced with ex Lisa Kudrow, 60, about “Friends.”O’Brien and Kudrow were romantically linked from 1988 to 1993, and the comedian recalled that Kudrow was impressed by Matthew Perry in the early days of filming “Friends.” “You called me up, and you were raving about … ” O’Brien said, as Kudrow interrupted and said, “Matthew.”“Yes.
And you were saying, he’s so funny … There was part of me that was jealous,” O’Brien confessed. “Like, I was okay. I make you laugh pretty hard, and you were like, ‘No, you don’t understand.
This guy’s really [funny].’ “O’Brien, who has been married to his wife, Liza Powel O’Brien, since 2002, clearly got over his jealousy, as he attended Kudrow’s 1995 wedding to French ad executive Michael Stern, to whom she’s still married.
The former couple and now pals continued to reminisce about Perry, who died at age 54 in October 2023 of accidental drowning due to a ketamine overdose.
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