Lisa Kudrow has opened up about what she considers the biggest stroke of luck of her life, and it has nothing to do with landing one of the most beloved roles in television history.
Talk to The Hollywood ReporterThe 62-year-old Emmy-winning actress reflected on her 30-year marriage to advertising executive Michel Stern and why the timing of their meeting means everything to her.
“I feel like the luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that I met and fell in love with the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with before. Friendsjust before,” she said.
The couple married in 1995, just a year later Friends was created and later welcomed their son Julian in 1998.
Julian is now 27 years old and it turns out that creativity runs in the family. He made his acting debut in the third season of the HBO series. The returnplaying an expert in AI technology, with the series set to premiere on March 22.
As for the marriage itself, Kudrow has always been candid about what she thinks makes it work.
Talk to Charm in 2014, she described the commitment she and Stern made to each other not as a promise to love forever, but as a promise to keep working at it.
“We don’t promise to love each other forever…but we promise to work through any issues that might arise,” she said. “We are determined to make our marriage work.”
