Lisa Kudrow has opened up about her “devastating” experience of getting fired from a sitcom show, Frasier.
The Friends star was hired to play producer Roz Doyle in the hit show opposite to Kelsey Grammer, but she was replaced by Peri Gilpin.
During a dialogue on the Smartless podcast, the 61-year old actress confessed that experience was "devastating", adding: "I didn’t film it [the pilot]. I got fired from 'Frasier'."
Lisa explained, "I was trying to like [ask], ‘What can I do?’ But I think they did make a casting mistake because I went to the network with Perri Gilpin. I think they were just correcting a mistake. Cause Perri should have always been Roz."
But after the renowned actress was fired, she landed a life-changing role of Phoebe Buffay in Friends.
She continued, "I did a guest star on 'Mad About You', they had me back, I’d already done a guest star the first season. So now I’m there for a different character [just called 'waitress'] and my agent said, ‘You’re not doing this' ... [I was] not in a position to say no. It’s to me the best show and I’m doing it."
Lisa recently turned 61 and her co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox paid a sweet tribute to her.
