Lisa Kudrow had an early taste of social distancing during her mother’s funeral in February. Weeks before the strict measures of the coronavirus lockdown were implemented throughout North America, the former Friends star and members of her family gathered in a hospital emergency room with her dying mum – and then at her funeral.
And Lisa was so concerned about reports of COVID-19 sweeping through the U.S. she asked the rabbi overseeing the farewell to “let everyone know there was to be no hugging”, because everyone had been in the emergency room with her mother. “I’m a freak and all I could think that whole day was, ‘There has to be coronavirus here’,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Some people (understood) but most people were just