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They may have played the happiest BFFs on TV, but in real life, the cast members of

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Friends haven't exactly had it easy. We decided to look at some of the cast's darkest and

JENNIFER ANISTON WAS ESTRANGED FROM HER MOTHER

For well over a decade, Jennifer Aniston was estranged from her mother, Nancy Dow. The

reason? In 1999, Dow published a tell-all book called From Mother and Daughter to Friends:

A Memoir. Although Aniston claimed in a 2015 interview with The Hollywood Reporter that

she and Dow are "all fine now," the Emmy-winner admitted things were pretty rough for awhile,

especially when she was growing up. Aniston explained: "She was very critical of me. Because

she was a model, she was gorgeous, stunning. I wasn't. I never was. I honestly still don't

think of myself in that sort of light, which is fine. She was also very unforgiving. She

would hold grudges that I just found so petty." Dow divorced Aniston's father, Days of Our

Lives star John Aniston, in 1980. Meanwhile, Dow was not invited to her daughter's wedding

to Brad Pitt in 2000, or her 2015 wedding to Justin Theroux.

JENNIFER ANISTON DIDN'T INVITE HALF THE CAST TO HER WEDDING

Also missing from the guest list for Aniston's surprise nuptials to Justin Theroux: half

the cast of Friends. Just days after the news hit TMZ, it was revealed that Aniston's co-stars

Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer didn't get invites. LeBlanc told People: "I

think she's happy. And that's all I care about. If she wanted me there, I would have been

there." Matthew Perry admitted to being "surprised" by the wedding news, saying, "It was a surprise

to me, as well. I wasn't invited. So what can you do?" So much for being Friends.

MATTHEW PERRY BATTLED ADDICTION FOR YEARS

Matthew Perry has been open and honest about his struggles with substance abuse, which

sent him to rehab twice during the peak of Friends' success. But the now-sober actor

managed to shock us once again when he admitted to BBC2 Radio in 2016 that his addictions

caused him to forget filming three years of the show. When asked to pick his least-favorite

episode of Friends, his answer was, well, sobering: "I think the answer is, I don't

remember three years of it. So none of those…somewhere between season three and six." Perry had previously

spoken to People magazine in 2013 about his addictions to alcohol and pills, admitting

Speaking to the U.K.'s Telegraph in 2014, LeBlanc let it slip that he's been arrested

multiple times in the past for driving under the influence. After discussing his character's

DUI arrest in season three of Episodes, he revealed that he'd gotten busted for driving

under the influence twice. He elaborated: "When I was young and stupid. I wasn't driving

fast, just crooked. The press never got hold of the mugshots. I was lucky." For his sake,

MATT LEBLANC SURPRISED HIS WIFE WITH A DIVORCE

In 2006, LeBlanc shocked everyone, including his wife Melissa, when he filed for divorce.

Sources for People magazine claimed at the time that Melissa was "absolutely blindsided"

by the divorce and had "hoped for a reconciliation." That turned out to be impossible, though,

because LeBlanc was already dating his Joey co-star, Andrea Anders, as early as January.

According to People, some alleged that LeBlanc's relationship with Anders—whom he dated for

eight years until they split in 2015—was one of the causes of his divorce. LeBlanc

MATT LEBLANC ONCE GOT COZY WITH A STRIPPER

In a surprise twist of events, LeBlanc actually admitted during an interview in 2005 that

he had interacted with a "sexually aggressive" stripper while on a motorcycle road trip with

five of his friends in Canada. He told The National Enquirer: "The stripper was all over

me. I was drinking, and she was crossing the line…When I realized the situation that

was unfolding I felt I was being careless and irresponsible, and I had to get the hell

out of there." Pretty sure that's been said by every guy in a relationship after getting

COURTENEY COX MYSTERIOUSLY STOPPED PRODUCTION OF COUGAR TOWN

In November 2009, Courteney Cox unexpectedly halted production of her hit ABC sitcom, Cougar

Town, due to what her reps described at the time as a "private family matter." The production

hiatus lasted about a week. To this day, the actual family matter was never actually revealed,

which is pretty strange. And speaking of strange …

COURTENEY COX'S DIVORCE FROM DAVID ARQUETTE WAS KIND OF WEIRD

Courteney Cox and David Arquette, who met on the set of the 1996 slasher movie Scream,

announced they were separating after 11 years of marriage in 2010. Oddly enough, the couple

didn't actually go through with filing for divorce until about two and a half years later;

the divorce was ultimately settled in June 2013. The couple has since remained completely

amicable and committed to raising their only daughter, Coco. That friendship might explain

the delay. Cox told More magazine in 2014: "In divorce you always have regret. We were

married for a long time, so it's not like we didn't try." A happy divorce. Who knew

In 2014, a jury found Lisa Kudrow in breach of contract after a lengthy legal dispute

with her former manager, Scott Howard. He claimed Kudrow owed him residuals from when

he still managed her—like, you know, from all those reruns of Friends. He first filed

the suit in 2008, and after six miserable years, a jury ultimately ruled in Howard's

favor. As a result, Kudrow had to fork over $1.6 million. To be fair: that was only a

little more than what she made for a single episode of Friends in 2004. But, still. ouch.

DAVID SCHWIMMER PISSED OFF HIS NYC NEIGHBORS

Like Ross Gellar himself, David Schwimmer's personal life is—how do we put this lightly?—kind

of boring. However, he did wind up upsetting a whole bunch of his neighbors when he decided

to demolish a preserved 1852 townhouse and build a new one completely from scratch. His

neighbors eventually got so annoyed with the construction that someone actually went and

spray-painted the words "Ross Is Not Cool" on a nearby fence. Harsh, but also something

all fans of Friends have been saying for decades.

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