Christina Applegate Finally Watches Friends Despite Emmy Win

Christina Applegate may have won an Emmy for her guest role in Friends – but she’s only now watching the iconic show for the first time.

In the Tuesday, October 15 episode of her and Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s “Messy” podcast, Applegate, 52, and Sigler, 43, revealed that she had recently started watching the NBC franchise after the pair discussed watching television in the evenings to quell their anxiety.

“You know me, I turn on the TV and it stays on 24 hours a day,” Applegate said. “Except for the Bravo shows, which just stop. Then if I fall asleep and I don’t have white noise, which is now Bravo or Peacock, I have to press it again. I like how it just plays, but then I miss an episode of something. Like I’m busy Friends now. Yes, I was busy Friends twice. I had never seen it before I started working on it.”

Applegate noted that she is in Season 8 of the series, even though she only started “three days ago.”

“So I don’t have a problem with anything, right? No. It’s fine,” she joked, before adding Friends is such a “good show” to watch. “The funny thing is, I literally won an Emmy on that show and I had never seen it before I went on, and now I’m obsessed.”

The Dead to me actress went on to explain how she watched her own episodes after appearing on the show, but she didn’t know what was going on in the series.

“It’s so good, it’s such a good show,” she said.

Applegate played as by Jennifer Aniston sister, Amy Green, in two episodes of the hit sitcom. She took home an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for the 2003 episode “The One Where Rachel’s Sister Babysits,” which shows Amy moving in with Rachel (Aniston) and Joey (Matt LeBlanc).

Although Applegate may not have seen an episode of it Friends she previously opened up about being surprised about winning an Emmy Award for her guest appearance.

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“It was shocking that I was nominated for the episodes I did because it honestly didn’t feel like work,” she said Today in 2019. “And it didn’t feel like I was doing anything special in any way. I just had so much fun. I was really in shock when that happened. It was one of those moments of, “Why… What, me?” Like inside Sixteen candles when she says, “Me?” And he says, ‘Yes, you.’ That’s how I felt when they said my name.”

Applegate then recalled how she realized that Friends would be such a beloved show.

“I remember talking to Marta [Kauffman] about Friends. And this was while we were at it Yes. And she said the stars aligned exactly,” she said at the time. “You had six people who were just the most perfect actors for these roles, relatable and so funny. And it doesn’t happen often that everything works. Plus, it’s just a great show. It has heart, it’s funny.”

Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004 and followed six friends: Aniston, LeBlanc, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry And David Schwimmer – all of whom live in New York City. The series won six Emmy Awards with 62 nominations.