star friends Lisa Kudrow has shared a deeply personal experience that he believes may have been 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 quirky Phoebe Buffay in the hit sitcom Friends, recalled a series of unexplained incidents that left her wondering if her mother had contacted her from the afterlife.
Lisa Kudrow says everyone but her was awake when her mother died
Lisa revealed that her mother died during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recalling the night of his death, he said almost everyone in the family was awake.“My brother got up when he got the call. My dad was awake, my husband was awake and an alarm went off at my sister’s house, so she and her husband were awake too,” Lisa said, adding that she only woke up because her brother called her.When her family shared their experiences later, Lisa joked that she felt as if her mother’s energy had “awakened everyone” except her.“I said, ‘It wasn’t weird. She flew off and woke everyone up when it happened … except she didn’t wake me up.’ I remember thinking, ‘Am I upset? I’m out of a lot of things,'” he said.
The mysterious text “MOM” that appeared on her phone
A couple of days after the funeral, while preparing a slideshow in memory of her mother, Lisa noticed something unusual on her phone.She said she was just replying to messages when, without typing anything herself, the word “MOM” suddenly appeared in a text box.“I didn’t write it. Delete. Delete. Delete,” he recalled thinking.According to Lisa, it happened again, and then a third time.Still upset that she thought her mother had “visited” everyone else but not her, Lisa later mentioned the strange behavior on the phone to her husband. After hearing what had happened, her husband and his friends responded with an amazing interpretation.“They said, ‘Lisa, your mom texted you from beyond,'” she shared.
Another inexplicable sign during confinement
The inexplicable 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 hadn’t written it. At first, she dismissed it because her mother had never ended messages that way.However, one day later, his father showed him an old letter written by his mother, and almost half of the page was filled with “XOXOXOXO” repeated.
A birthday message he thinks may come from his mother
Lisa also recalled another unusual incident on her 60th birthday when she found a string of random letters in a text box. Although he admitted that the letters could have meant almost anything, after rearranging them he felt they resembled a birthday greeting.She also noted that she affectionately calls her son Julian “JU” and believed the message may have included a reference to him. This time, he took a screenshot.While Lisa acknowledged that there could be many explanations for the incidents, she said she remains open to the possibility that they mean something more.“Even though we don’t know what it is, we know it’s something. Telepathy or not, they’re communicating in another realm or dimension or something… Why would you want to shut it down?” she said