“He was like, Yvette, like, what are you doing?
Like, this is me, it’s fine.'”
Yvette Nicole Brownis sharing howMatthew Perryhelped her get over her TV crush on him.

Yvette Nicole Brown and Matthew Perry in ‘The Odd Couple’.Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty
And I think Chandler was really great.
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Perry, whodied at age 54 in October 2023, took Browns confession in stride.
He was like, Yvette, like, what are you doing?
Like, this is me, it’s fine, she said.
And so he kind of helped me get over my little crush, weird fangirl thing.
I really, really was a huge fan.
The sitcom rounded out its cast with performances by Brown, Lindsay Sloane, and Wendell Pierce.
When I first moved to L.A. after college, it was the year thatFriendsdebuted.
I’m very grateful that I have that memory, those memories of him.
He was a wonderful, loving man.
Listen to Brown recall working with Perry in the podcast above.