Star friends: Lisa Kudrow: shared a deeply personal experience that he believed was a sign from his late mother, Nedra Stern, following her death in 2020.Speaking on Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown podcast, the actress, best known for playing the quirky Phoebe Buffay on the hit sitcom Friends, recalled a series of unexplained incidents that left her wondering if her mother had somehow reached her from beyond.
Lisa Kudrow said everyone but her was awake when her mother died
Lisa disclosed that her mother died during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recalling the night of his death, he said that almost every member of the family happened to be awake.“My brother woke up when he received a call. My father woke up, my husband woke up, the alarm went off at my sister’s house, so her husband also woke up,” said Lisa, who only woke up because her brother called her.As her family shared their experiences later, Lisa joked that she felt her mother’s energy “awakened everyone”, except her.“I said, ‘It’s not strange. He flew and woke everyone in his path … except he didn’t wake me.’ I remember thinking, ‘Am I annoying? I’m so out of things,'” he said.
The mysterious ‘MOM’ text that appeared on her phone
A few days after the funeral, while preparing a slideshow in memory of her mother, Lisa noticed something unusual on her phone.He said he was just replying to the messages when, without typing himself, the word “MOM” suddenly appeared in a text box.“I didn’t write that. Delete. Delete. Delete,” he remembers thinking.According to Lisa, it happened again, and then a third time.Still upset that she thought her mother was “visiting” everyone but not her, Lisa later mentioned the strange behavior on the phone to her husband. After hearing what happened, her husband and friends responded with a shocking interpretation.“They said, ‘Lisa, your mom texted you from the front,'” she shared.
Another unknown sign during the lockdown
The unexplained events did not stop there.During the lockdown, Lisa said she was texting a friend when “XOXOXO” suddenly appeared in the message box, even though she didn’t type it. At first, he refused it because his mother never ended the 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 believed was from his mother
Lisa also recalls another strange incident on her 60th birthday when she found a bunch of random letters in a text box. Although he admitted that the letters could mean almost anything, after arranging them he felt that they resembled a birthday sentiment.He also noted that he affectionately referred to his son Julian as “JU” and believed that the message might contain a reference to him. This time, he took a screenshot.While Lisa acknowledged that there are many explanations for the incidents, she said she remains open to the possibility that there is more meaning.“While we don’t know what it is, we do know it’s something. Telepathy or not, they’re communicating with another realm, dimension, or something… Why do you want to shut it down?” he said.