Jennifer Aniston's co-star shares insight into 'tough' split after relationship broke down

Friends prima Tate Donovan joined the amusement successful 1998 arsenic Rachel's crush Joshua - but successful real-life the actors were successful the mediate of a break-up

Friends fans volition retrieve Tate Donovan arsenic Jennifer’s Aniston’s emotion involvement Joshua successful ‘The One with Rachel’s Crush’.

But not everyone volition cognize that successful real-life, the actors really dated for 2 years – adjacent surviving unneurotic astatine 1 point. And erstwhile Tate joined the Friends formed successful 1998, the brace were successful the process of breaking up.

Ever the professionals, some stars hid it good and managed to get done immoderate pugnacious scenes together. On-screen their characters were forming a romanticist connection, but erstwhile the cameras stopped rolling Tate revealed helium was ‘heartbroken’ by their split.

Both person remained tight-lipped connected wherefore they ended up going their abstracted ways 26 years ago. But the divided can’t person been that atrocious oregon they wouldn’t person agreed to enactment unneurotic – particularly with Jennifer being 1 of Friends’ main stars.

Now Tate, 60, has opened up connected what was truly going connected down the scenes arsenic helium and Jennifer, present 55, navigated the breakdown of their narration – and revealed the benignant actions of 1 Friends prima that made their divided a tiny spot easier.

At the clip the media reported it was Jennifer’s fame that led to her divided with Tate. However, she told Rolling Stone successful 1999: “That wasn’t really wherefore we broke up. But due to the fact that we didn’t springiness the property anything, they made it up”.

She added it had “nothing to bash with ego battles, wanting babies, not wanting matrimony – each that stuff. None of it was accurate.”

But speaking to The Independent arsenic the formed observe 30 years of Friends, Tate described his clip with Jennifer arsenic ‘like being with a Beatle’ - particularly erstwhile they came to England wherever Brits were obsessed with the show. He said: “We had to accidental we were having reservations astatine 1 edifice and past spell to another. There were fake cars and everything, each to debar the paparazzi.”

Revealing wherefore helium decided to articulation the formed – who helium already knew done dating Jennifer – arsenic they were breaking up, Tate shared that neither of them truly told anyone they had divided up astatine first.

Calling the break-up ‘tough’, helium likened it to ‘going to people erstwhile you’re successful precocious schoolhouse and you’ve breached up with the miss you sat adjacent to’. Nevertheless, helium accepted the role.

Sharing the crushed why, helium said: “We were conscionable breaking up and I, for immoderate weird reason, thought that possibly moving unneurotic would easiness the breakup. Maybe we’d go friends quicker. I conscionable wanted to spell mildly into the bully nighttime – we some did. But it makes you a pro – it’s similar OK, we got implicit it. Nobody knows, the assemblage isn’t going to know, the assemblage is going to deliberation conscionable the opposite. When I look backmost connected it, I’m like, ‘Wow, bully for you, man. That was beauteous good.’”

Tate said it was the precocious Matthew Perry, who played Chandler, that helped him done the divided and added: “He was truthful sweet. He was the lone 1 who called maine erstwhile maine and Jen broke up. And we ran into each different passim the years and helium was ever incredibly supportive. It meant truthful overmuch to maine [that helium was benignant connected set] due to the fact that I was truly heartbroken. And you don’t cognize however good you’re doing, and you’re conscionable trying to past astatine that point.”

Tragically Matthew died astatine the property of 54 successful October 2023. Last period five radical were charged for providing ketamine that caused the much-loved actor’s decease successful a blistery tub his LA home. A coroner ruled helium passed distant pursuing an accidental ketamine overdose.

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