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How Jennifer Aniston Really Felt About The Friends Reunion

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Robert Clark

Published Mar 30, 2026

Jennifer Aniston is opening up about what it was like to return to the set of "Friends" nearly 20 years after the series finale, per Us Weekly

The "Murder Mystery" actress admitted that the experience was very emotional for her, as well as the rest of the cast members Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and Matthew Perry. "It was a sucker punch in the heart in a way. It was for all of us, I think. Even Courteney we got tears out of," Aniston told Gayle King on SiriusXM. "We romanticized it, but you also have to remember we haven't been there [since the series finale], and that time was a very specific time, when we were saying goodbye to something that we didn't want to, we cared deeply about, but we knew it was the time to say goodbye."

She added, "Our lives were ahead of us. We had our future ahead of us."

Aniston recalled feeling like she was in another time during the reunion filming. "It almost felt like time had stopped and we time traveled. And there's good in that, and then there's heartbreak in that," the "Morning Show" star admitted. Later, when asked what the series means to her today, she said, "It's really hard to put that into a sentence, except it filled my heart. The amount of love that people have for these six characters is something that you can't really explain the meaning of it. Being reminded of the amount of happiness this show brought to people, that's a special thing to be a part of."