Recent weeks have been especially tough for Friends’ former cast and crew members, not to mention the fandom at large, due to the unforeseen and sudden death of co-star Matthew Perry, who accidentally drowned at age 54. Those with Max subscriptions have been streaming episodes in memory of the comedic actor, and it turns out one of the NBC sitcom’s most memorable two-episode arcs nearly featured a total deal-breaking moment involving Chandler cheating on Monica, which I have to assume would have caused fans to riot.
This unexpectedly golden morsel of Friends trivia comes from Lisa Cash, an actress who appeared in a guest-starring capacity in the Season 5 episode “The One in Vegas: Part 1.” While viewers would presumably recognize her as the flight attendant during Ross and Rachel’s flight scenes, she was originally going to play a hotel employee who could have potentially been the “copy girl” of Monica and Chandler’s relationship. Here’s how Cash put it to TMZ:
