Friends star Lisa Kudrow shared a profound experience that he believed would have been a sign from his late mother, Nedra Stern, after she passed away in 2020.Speaking on Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown podcast, the actress, best known for playing Phoebe Buffay in the hit sitcom Friends, recalled many unexplained incidents that made her wonder if her mother had reached out to her from afar.
Lisa Kudrow says everyone but her was awake when her mother died
Lisa revealed that her mother died during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recalling the night of his death, he said that almost everyone in the family was awake.“When my brother received the phone call when he woke up, my father was awake, my husband was awake, and there was an alarm at my sister’s house so she and her husband were awake,” said Lisa, adding that she only woke up because her brother called her.When her family described her experience later, Lisa joked that she felt like her mother’s energy had “awakened everyone”, except her.“I said, ‘It wasn’t surprising. He flew around and woke everyone up as he passed by … except he didn’t wake me.’ I remember thinking, ‘Am I annoying? I get left out of a lot of things,’” he said.
The mysterious words ‘MOM’ that appeared on her phone
A few days after the funeral, while organizing a photo exhibition in her mother’s memory, Lisa saw something strange on her phone.She said she was replying to text messages when, without typing anything herself, the word “MOM” suddenly appeared in the inbox.“I didn’t write that. Delete it. Delete it. Delete it,” she recalled thinking.According to Lisa, it happened a second time, and then a third time.Distraught that she believed her mother had “visited” anyone but her, Lisa mentioned the strange behavior of the phone to her husband. When they heard what had happened, her husband and friends reacted with surprise.“They said, ‘Lisa, your mom texted you from far away,'” she said.
Another unknown signal during shutdown
The unpredictable events do not end there.During the shutdown, Lisa said she was texting a friend when “XOXOXO” suddenly appeared in the message box, even though she hadn’t typed. At first, he refused because his mother had never finished messages like that.However, one day later, his father showed him an old letter written by his mother, and almost half of the page was filled with repeated “XOXOXOXO”.
A birthday message that he believes came from his mother
Lisa also recalled another unusual experience on her 60th birthday when she found random letters in a box. Although he admitted that the letters could have meant anything, after reframing them he found them to be similar to birthday greetings.She also said she affectionately calls her son Julian “JU” and believes the message may be about him. This time, he took a picture.Although Lisa admitted that there could be many reasons for what happened, she said she remains open to the possibility that she meant something else.“Even if we don’t know what it is, we know it’s something. Reading or not, they communicate in some way, measure, or something. He said.