Lisa Kudrow has opened up about what she considers the biggest stroke of luck in her life, and it has nothing to do with landing one of the most beloved roles in television history.
speaks to The Hollywood Reporterthe Emmy-winning actress, 62, reflected on her 30-year marriage to advertising executive Michel Stern and why the timing of their meeting means everything to her.
“I feel that the luckiest thing that 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 premiered, and went on to welcome their son Julian in 1998.
Julian is now 27 years old, and it turns out that creativity runs in the family. He will make his acting debut in the upcoming third season of HBO’s The comebackwho plays an AI technology expert, and the series is set to premiere on March 22.
As for the marriage itself, Kudrow has always been candid about what she believes makes it work.
speaks to Glamour 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 on the issues that come up,” she said. “We are committed to making our marriage work.”
