He worried they wouldn’t be friendly anymore.
Lisa Cash, who appeared opposite Matthew Perry in the hit NBC show “Friends,” revealed that writers planned to have Chandler cheat on Monica — but the late star scrapped the idea.
Speaking with TMZ, Cash, 54, said she was cast as an extra in the Season 5 episode “The One in Vegas: Part 1.” In the storyline, her character was initially going to sleep with Chandler after delivering room service.
“The scene was Chandler and Monica [Courteney Cox] were arguing In Vegas about Monica having lunch with [ex-boyfriend] Richard [Tom Selleck],” Cash told the outlet. “And in our script, Chandler goes up to the hotel room and orders room service and I bring it up as a hotel worker.”
“And we end up talking and laughing and connecting and Chandler ends up cheating on Monica with my character.”
According to Cash, Perry didn’t like the storyline and asked the show’s writers to change it.
“We had rehearsed it,” Cash added. “And the day before we were supposed to shoot it in front of a live audience, I was told that [Perry] went to the writers and said the fans will never forgive [Chandler] for cheating on Monica.”
“He was probably right,” Cash conceded. “That would have possibly changed the course of the show.”
Despite being cut last minute, Cash still managed to appear in the 1999 episode as a flight attendant with Ross and Rachel (played by David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston).
Elsewhere in the interview, Cash praised Perry for being welcoming and making her feel comfortable while on the set of the hit sitcom.
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Cash’s praise is just one of several touching tributes that have poured in for the late actor, who was found dead at his Los Angeles home at age 54 on Oct. 28.
The Post previously reported that Perry had been found submerged and unresponsive in a hot tub at the time.
“Los Angeles City Firefighters responded to the 18000 block of West Blue Sail Drive at 4:07 PM on October 28, 2023, to find an adult male unconscious in a stand-alone jacuzzi,” the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement. “A bystander had brought the man’s head above the water and gotten him to the edge, then firefighters removed him from the water upon their arrival.”
Despite the autopsy for the “Fools Rush In” star being completed, the LA County Medical Examiner’s Office has labeled the manner and cause of death “deferred” pending additional tests, which includes a toxicology report.
According to the investigator, the tests will take several months to complete.
However, LA police officers did reveal that they do not suspect foul play nor do they believe any illegal drugs were involved. An initial test showed that Perry’s death was also not the result of a meth or fentanyl overdose.
Perry was remembered by his relatives and “Friends” costars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer at what is presumed to be a funeral service in LA on Friday.
In exclusive photos obtained by The Post, the five cast members were spotted making their way into the service to say their final goodbyes to Perry. Jim Burrows, who directed multiple episodes of the sitcom, previously said the group was “destroyed” over Perry’s death.