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Friends Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston, pictured in 2014<\/p>\n
Friends star Jennifer Aniston has said she and fellow actress Gwyneth Paltrow still discuss their mutual ex Brad Pitt, giving a rare glimpse into the Hollywood stars’ relationships.<\/p>\n
Paltrow and Pitt were engaged for a few months during 1996 and 1997, and he was then married to Aniston from 2000 to 2005.<\/p>\n
She was asked by Vanity Fair<\/a> if she and her close friend Paltrow ever discuss their ex, and responded: “Oh, of course. How can we not? We’re girls.”<\/p>\n However, their actual conversations were left to the reader’s imagination, with the interviewer saying the pair “trade wellness intel more than gossip”.<\/p>\n Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston both attended the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles in 2020<\/p>\n Both women are known for being health-conscious, and Aniston added: “We’re always swapping advice – ‘What are you doing for this?’ ‘What are you doing for that?’ ‘Do you have a new doctor for that?'”<\/p>\n However, Aniston did refer to her hugely publicised split from Pitt 20 years ago as “such a vulnerable time”, adding: “Ironically, I went to her [Paltrow] and Brad’s engagement party.”<\/p>\n The actresses met when Paltrow and David Schwimmer, Aniston’s Friends co-star, were filming 1996 film The Pallbearer.<\/p>\n Happier times: Friends cast Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston in 1994 <\/p>\n ‘We’d already been mourning Matthew Perry’<\/p>\n Aniston also touched on the 2023 death of Friends star Matthew Perry<\/a>, whose addiction problems have been well-documented. <\/p>\n A post-mortem examination found a high concentration of ketamine in his blood, and determined that “acute effects” of the drug had killed him.<\/p>\n “We did everything we could when we could,” she said, referencing the Friends stars’ efforts to help him with his addictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n “But it almost felt like we’d been mourning Matthew for a long time because his battle with that disease was a really hard one for him to fight. <\/p>\n “As hard as it was for all of us and for the fans, there’s a part of me that thinks this is better.<\/p>\n “I’m glad he’s out of that pain.”<\/p>\n Aniston and Perry played two of the six young friends living in New York City in the globally popular series, which ran from 1994 until 2004. The Emmy and Bafta-winning show had a sustained resurgence in popularity<\/a> after it debuted on Netflix in 2015.<\/p>\n Michelle Obama friendship<\/p>\n Aniston is most famous for playing Rachel Green in the show, but has also appeared in romantic comedy films with co-stars including Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. She also stars in US TV series The Morning Show with Reese Witherspoon, about a network news morning programme.<\/p>\n![\"Getty](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/675ab3e0-7772-11f0-a97f-3f8d4bbdf2d8.jpg.webp.webp\")
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