Celebrity BFFs: Hollywood’s Closest Pals

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Celebrity BFFs: Hollywood's Closest Pals

Can’t live without them! From Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens to Brad Pitt and George Clooney, these celebrity best friends have stuck by each other side’s through thick and thin. Tisdale and Hudgens formed a lasting bond while working together on several projects. The Suite Life of Zack and Cody alum played Sharpay Evans to the Spring Breakers star’s Gabriella Montez in 2006’s High School Musical, 2007’s High School Musical 2 and 2008’s High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Their friendship continued long after the cameras stopped rolling, despite their onscreen alter-egos’ rivalry in the trilogy. “We just have a connection and she’s so awesome and one of my best friends,” Tisdale exclusively told Us Weekly in August 2019. “What I love about her is that she’s so talented, and I think what we share is that we’re really grounded people and I think that that’s important, especially with what we do, is to stay grounded.” [jwplayer nbLrmgXY-zhNYySv2] The “Voices in My Head” singer pointed out that their relationship goes further back than their Disney Channel days. “We actually worked together a year before in a Sears commercial, and from that day on we were super close,” she explained. “So people don’t really know — I think some people know that, but they think it was that movie that brought us together and it really wasn’t.” Hudgens later served as one of Tisdale's bridesmaids when she and musician Christopher French tied the knot in 2014. The BFFs expanded their circle after the Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure star welcomed her daughter, Jupiter, in March 2021. Two months later, the Princess Switch actress met her pal's little one and they had an instant connection. “Literally Jupiter opened her arms like hold me the minute she met Ness," Tisdale wrote via Instagram at the time. "It warmed my heart." Busy Philipps, for her part, revealed how she maintains her friendship with Michelle Williams years after the pals starred together on Dawson’s Creek. “Whether you’re, like, in the public eye or not, I think the secret to longevity in friendships is putting in the time and the understanding and working through any issues that might arise,” the Cougar Town alum shared exclusively with Us in June 2019. “I think that especially now with texting, it’s even easier to stay in touch with people and be communicative.” Scroll through to see which A-listers consider one another their BFFs! [podcast_block]

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Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh

After Yeoh won a Golden Globe award at the 2023 ceremony, her Everything Everywhere All at Once costar Curtis was the first to applaud the occasion. Several days later, the Halloween Ends actress was still proud of her pal.

“I'm still stunned that a moment of natural exuberance and joy, became some sort of a symbol for women supporting other women,” Curtis wrote in a January 2023 Instagram post, showing off her homemade shirt with a picture of the now-viral moment. “I proudly wear it. #FRIENDSSUPPORTINGFRIENDS is a perfect squad goal for 2033. … CONGRATULATIONS @michelleyeoh_official YOU ARE EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE!”

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George Clooney and Julia Roberts

After two decades of friendship, Clooney joked about spending a lot of time with Roberts.

"There's been this restraining order now, that's why we're not here together," the actor, who once again teamed up with the Mystic Pizza star in Ticket to Paradise, quipped to Entertainment Tonight in September 2022. "She's a really good friend. She and her whole family are friends. I love their whole family."

Clooney also recalled living near his famous friend while shooting the movie, adding, "[Julia] lived down below us and she would come up and literally take the kids out for ice cream with my wife [Amal Clooney]. [Now] I can't shake her!"

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Abbi Jacobson and D’Arcy Carden

“I feel really lucky that I get to do this with her,” the Broad City alum told Entertainment Tonight in August 2022 of her A League of Their Own costar. “I met D'Arcy in a commercial acting class and I just feel like this is just the [next level]. Like we've worked together in Broad City but not like in this capacity and it just felt so special.”

She gushed: “It made the dynamic of [our characters] Carson [Shaw] and Greta [Gill] just sort of jump way ahead. The chemistry's there cause we're so close as friends, and yeah, I just feel really lucky.”

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Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett

The musicians, who have filmed multiple specials together, became close friends through the years. “He is a remarkable human being,” Gaga told Stephen Colbert in November 2021. “His commitment to civil rights, and to humanity, is something that he has taught me from a young age to take with me in all that I do. I love him very deeply.”

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Lizzo and BTS

“Me & my besties… swipe for #VMINZZO content 😘,” the “Rumors” songstress captioned an Instagram slideshow of photos with the South Korean boy band while attending Harry Styles’ concert in November 2021. Lizzo also shared footage via her Story of the group grooving to the England native's rendition of One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful” at the gig.

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Adele, Nicole Richie and Jennifer Lawrence

“They humanized me because I had avoided talking to anyone that was ever famous in any capacity, because I was like, ‘Well, I’m not famous,’” Adele told Rolling Stone in November 2021 of her L.A. neighbors. “I’m very British like that. We never spoke about work, which was amazing, because most of the time when I catch up with someone, they want to know all about my work, and I’m like, ‘I don’t want to talk about that. Can we talk about something else? I’m knackered.’”

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Ed Sheeran and Elton John

“I think people think I'm exaggerating and lying when I say he calls every day,” the “Thinking out Loud” crooner revealed during a November 2021 interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “He calls me every single morning. Even if it's like 10 seconds, every single morning he calls. … It's just become a daily thing and there's not many people in my life like that and I really, really appreciate him.”

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Tommy Lee and John Travolta

As the Grease star attempted to replicate the Motley Crue performer’s peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe, he needed some assistance. Lee shared the pair’s text exchange about the baking process via TikTok in November 2021.

In the clip, the Pulp Fiction actor explained, “OK, who would've thought that two superstars would spend their Wednesday nights making brownies and cookies, with fresh lemonade. Tommy Lee and JT, can't beat ‘em.”

Lee, for his part, responded, “Oh my god, buddy, my wife and I were just saying the exact same thing! I'm like, 'Who's sitting around on a Wednesday night?' I go, 'Could you imagine if people knew, like, Tommy and John are baking?' What happened?"

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Mariska Hargitay and Melissa McCarthy

"If you can’t produce quality care for your friend after ankle surgery, the next best this is obviously standing outside Wienerschnitzel with a sign @therealmariskahargitay ❤️💥," McCarthy captioned a video via Instagram of her with a sign that asked people to honk if they are praying for Hartigay's recovery after the actress suffered multiple ankle injuries in July 2021.

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Regé-Jean Page and Sterling K. Brown

The Bridgerton actor recalled being starstruck when he first met Brown in 2016 at a party, telling Variety in May 2021 that he told the This Is Us star, “I just want to be you” upon seeing him. "And Sterling just smiled patiently and let me do that and then talked me through how not to be overwhelmed by this room," Page remembered. "He reassured me and said, 'You've got stuff ahead of you. You can breathe.'"

Brown recognized Page from his role in Roots, telling Variety, "I remember thinking, 'Look at this dude doing the damn thing.’ He had this wonderful swagger about him." Since their initial meeting, the two have become good friends who Page has turned to for advice on many occasions. "He's talked me through a couple of things that scared me," Page said.

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Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer

The actresses formed their friendship in the '90s and have continued to keep that bond strong over the years. McCarthy and Spencer even took their close connection to the big-screen when they starred together in Netflix's Thunder Force in 2021. The film follows the pair as two lifelong best friends who become superheroes after they take a special serum.

"After 20+ years, I'm #stillbestfriends with the incredible @octaviaspencer and I wouldn't have it any other way ❤️" McCarthy captioned a compilation of photos of the duo in April 2021.

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Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern

The actresses became close friends after starring in 2014’s Wild and going on a press tour together to promote it. “You know someone is your favorite person when you’ve done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it’s like, ‘Are we going to eat something?’” Dern said of the experience in an interview with Vanity Fair. The two have since worked together on Big Little Lies, often go hiking together and in 2020 Witherspoon gave Dern tips on how to drink tequila during an Instagram Live chat.

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Cole Sprouse and KJ Apa

After meeting on the set of Riverdale in 2017, the New Zealand native and Disney Channel alum have become very close. They’ve traveled together, trolled each other via social media and Sprouse has photographed Apa as part of his passion for photography. In 2020, the two started quarantining together amid the coronavirus pandemic at Apa’s place in L.A. “I heard they’re just lifting weights and eating cheese,” Sprouse’s twin brother, Dylan Sprouse, told Entertainment Tonight in May 2020 about the duo’s living situation. “I think that’s what they do.”

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Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio

It wasn’t until 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that this duo acted alongside one another, but the bromance it created is already stuff movies are made of. During Pitt’s numerous awards show acceptance speeches in 2020, he showed how much he loves DiCaprio. “I also have to thank my partner in crime, LDC,” the Fight Club star said at the Golden Globes when accepting the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. “He’s an all-star, he’s a gent. I wouldn’t be here without you, man. I thank you, still.”

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Anna Camp and Brittany Snow

Not only have Camp and Snow played onscreen BFFs in three Pitch Perfect installments, but off screen they’ve become inseparable. Ahead of Camp’s wedding to Skylar Astin in 2016 (the two have since split), Snow celebrated her friend in style at a country-themed bachelorette bash. When Snow married Tyler Stanaland in March 2020, Camp was one of her many aca-awesome costars to attend the Palm Springs bachelorette party and California-based nuptials.

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Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams

The Game of Thrones costars bonded on the set of the HBO hit, which ran from 2011 to 2019. Williams even served as Turner’s maid of honor when the Dark Phoenix star married Joe Jonas in France in June 2019. The onscreen sisters also got matching tattoos in September 2016.

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B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling

The former Office castmates dated before deciding to stick to friendship. “B.J. is so much more like family now than a platonic friend,” Kaling told GoodHousekeeping.com in May 2019. “He’s the godfather to my daughter [Katherine].”

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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

The comedians tackled pretty much everything together. Not only did they star on Saturday Night Live (including taking their turns at the "Weekend Update" desk), but they also went on to share the big screen in Sisters and Baby Mama as well as cohost the Golden Globes in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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Jennifer Lopez and Leah Remini

Lopez and Remini became fast friends after being introduced by the singer’s ex-husband Marc Anthony in 2004. The pals later costarred in the 2018 film Second Act.

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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

The childhood friends tackled Hollywood together, co-writing and acting in the Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting. Affleck and Damon remained besties long after their big break.

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Nina Dobrev and Julianne Hough

The Vampire Diaries alum told E! News in 2013 that she and the former Dancing With the Stars pro have been “connected at the hip” since their hairstylist, Riawna Capri, introduced them. Dobrev was later a bridesmaid for Hough at her July 2017 wedding to Brooks Laich.

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Jennifer Lawrence and Adele

In March 2019, the actress and singer had a raucous time during a girls' night out in New York City. The duo visited a West Village gay bar, and a source told Us, “Adele was on stage playing a game called Musical Shots. Jennifer Lawrence was in the audience cheering them on.” This wasn't the first time the friends were caught hanging out. In January 2015, the Oscar winner and the "Hello" songstress chatted after they bumped into each other at a restaurant in West Hollywood. “They exchanged a bunch of laughs for quite a while before Adele rejoined her table,” a source told Us at the time.

Later that year, the Grammy winner and the Red Sparrow star grabbed dinner together at a New York City restaurant with another of Lawrence’s celeb BFFs Emma Stone.

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Busy Philipps and Michelle Williams

Philipps met best friend Williams in 2001 after joining the cast of Dawson’s Creek and traveling to the show’s set in Wilmington, North Carolina. “I met you the first night I was there,” Philipps recalled when she hosted her former costar on a February 2018 episode of Busy Tonight. “I had been prepped that we were going to love each other, so it felt very high stakes, and we ended up immediately loving each other.”

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Reese Witherspoon and Chelsea Handler

"She's a really great friend. She's the kind of person who will cancel all her plans if you're in a bad mood and you just want to sit on the couch and watch a movie," Witherspoon says of Handler, who is also pals with Jennifer Aniston and Charlize Theron. "She's really generous. She likes to give a lot of good gifts!"

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Jamie-Lynn Sigler and JoAnna Garcia

First-time moms Sigler, Garcia, and Jenna Dewan have all traded parenting tips in the time since giving birth in 2013. "It'll be so fun to do mommy groups and things together and use each other's experiences to learn." Sigler, mom to son Beau, predicts that he'll have quite a bit of face time with her friends' daughters Emerson and Everly. "He's going to have a little harem of princesses to choose from," jokes Sigler. "We all joke about it."

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Beyoncé and Gwyneth Paltrow

These two powerhouse moms have bonded over protecting their daughters Blue Ivy and Apple. In 2013, Paltrow called Beyoncé “incredible” and said, "She's a great friend on every level."

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Miley Cyrus and Kelly Osbourne

Osbourne has stuck by her good friend Cyrus' side for years — even when her one-time Fashion Police co-host Joan Rivers blasted the "Wrecking Ball" singer. Osbourne told The Huffington Post in 2014 that she's "proud of her because whether you agree with what she does or not, she stands by her guns and she's not fake.”

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Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens

BFFs since their Disney days in High School Musical, Tisdale once gushed to Yahoo’s OMG! that “She's like my family. She's like my sister. We grew up together.”

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Taylor Swift and Jaime King

After bonding at a Golden Globes party in 2014, the two blondes became fast friends. “She's the most fun, most loving, most wonderful and most generous friend and I feel very blessed to have her in my life," King has said of the songstress.

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Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb

These besties do everything from work together every day as co-hosts on Kathie Lee & Hoda to celebrate each other’s birthdays offscreen. When they first met, Gifford once told NBC, “I knew that day that even if we never worked together, she'd be my friend for the rest of my life." While Kotb added, "We have lunch together, we hang out, we talk on the phone... I confide in her, she confides in me. It's what a friendship is."

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Lauren Conrad and Lo Bosworth

"I have really gotten a chance to see who my true friends are and who is going to be there for me," Hills alum Conrad, who has based characters in her L.A. Candy books on her best pals, has said of those close to her, including former costar Bosworth.

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Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin

Jenner and Baldwin have clearly bonded over their love for modeling and selfies. The BFFs have done everything together from take snaps in their Calvin Klein underwear to don matching leopard print bikinis.

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Brad Pitt and George Clooney

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2012, Clooney explained his longtime friendship with his Ocean’s Eleven costar Pitt. “Brad is one of the great guys,” he said. “We’re good friends, but it’s different from what people think, meaning we don’t spend a lot of time together. He has been to my home in Como; we motorcycle together. But [sometimes I don’t see him often].”

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Khloé Kardashian and Rob Kardashian

They might be a family of six kids but Khloé and younger brother Rob’s bond is stronger than blood. Not only have these two decided to live with one another, Khloé publicly defended Rob when his ex Adrienne Bailon called him out for cheating. Khloé retweeted Kim Kardashian's tweet which read: "So sad when people try to kick my brother when he is down #FamilyForever."

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Jaden Smith and Kylie Jenner

Once the subject of dating rumors, Jenner and Smith are simply platonic pals, and great ones at that, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star explains. "He makes me laugh and he is a great dancer," Jenner raved to Seventeen of her "best guy friend.".

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John Stamos and Lori Loughlin

They were onscreen lovers on the hit '90s sitcom Full House, and its Netflix revival, Fuller House, to this day, TV's Rebecca Donaldson and Jesse Katsopolis remain pals. "I consider him one of my best, dearest friends," the actress gushed to Us of Stamos. "Certainly one of my oldest longtime friends."

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Nikki Ferrell and Andi Dorfman

Ferrell credits Dorfman with helping her make it through their mutual 2014 stint on The Bachelor. "I could not have made it through this experience without you," pediatric nurse Ferrell recently wrote in a sweet Instagram note to her pal that accompanied this photo. "Thank you for being a best friend, someone I can always trust, laugh with, and cry with."

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Ramona Singer and Sonja Morgan

Costars on Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City, Singer and Morgan have seen each other through the best — and worst — of times. "We are like sisters now," Morgan —  who supported Singer through her split from husband Mario in 2014 — has told Andy Cohen. "We have the best times together. So many, and you can't count them."

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Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox

"I can tell you we're both very fortunate to have each other," Cox told Marie Claire magazine.

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Jenni "JWoww" Farley and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi

Developing a deep bond while shooting MTV's Jersey Shore, the duo have their own spin-off reality series and compare their friendship to TV BFFs Laverne and Shirley. "I think I'd be Laverne," Farley has said. "Shirley is more like a worrywart. Well, it depends on the episode." Polizzi take? "Whoever is the tall one, that one is Jenni."

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Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney Kardashian

"We're friends because we're sisters but I think we rotate on which one's our best friend," Khloé has said of her bond with Kim and Kourtney.

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Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling

After 10 years of sharing the same zip code on Beverly Hills, 90210, the actresses still support one another. The Peach Pit pals will reunite on TV when they produce and costar in ABC Family's Mystery Girls. "[The show] was just the perfect vehicle for me and Jennie. I just thought it would be a great thing for us to do together," Spelling tells Us.

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Jessica Simpson and CaCee Cobb

First-time mom Cobb — who parents Rocco with husband Donald Faison — is getting parenting tips from her BFF Simpson. "She's got me beat," Cobb tells Us of Simpson, mom to daughters Maxwell and Birdie and son Ace. "Just watching her, I'm in awe because she makes it look easy — but it's not, I can tell!"

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Zach Braff and Donald Faison

Costarring on the medical comedy Scrubs from 2001 to 2010, the pair remain close to this day. Braff — the godfather to Faison's son Rocco — invited his BFF and CaCee Cobb to hold their December 2012 wedding at his home.

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Jay-Z and Chris Martin

The rapper and Coldplay frontman collaborated on Jay Z's 2006 album Kingdom Come and the track Beach Chair.

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Katy Perry and Rihanna

Though the pair reportedly had a falling out over Rihanna's relationship with Chris Brown, Perry couldn't help but take a playful jab at her pal during a 2013 chat with Elle Canada. "I think that Rihanna always looks so fresh and I'm like, 'How do you do that? We all know how much pot you smoke! And you don't sleep because you're on Instagram at four o'clock in the morning!'" she said with a laugh and a wink, calling out Rihanna's unapologetic marijuana use and selfie-prone tendencies.

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Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz

Enlisting pal Diaz to help with her final wedding dress fitting and read a sweet poem at her May 2012 ceremony, Barrymore wasn't the first to know that Will Kopelman was planning to propose. "I knew Drew was getting married before she did!" Diaz told InStyle UK of her longtime BFF and Charlie's Angels costar.

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Kathy Griffin and Cher

The comedienne and music legend have become such besties that they often have slumber parties at Cher's opulent California mansion. "Typically Cher demands a no makeup, sweatpants kind of situation for our nights in but on a recent visit, just to annoy her, I said, 'Will you do my makeup for me? Oh and make it sparkly,'" Griffin recalled in 2012. "After a quick argument she said, with no irony, 'Well we'll have to start in my sparkle drawer,' I immediately ran into her colossal Balinese themed bathroom to find the 'sparkle drawer.'"

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Lea Michele and Kate Hudson

Hudson has supported Michele in immeasurable ways since the July 2013 passing of Michele's boyfriend Cory Monteith. Chief among them: She opened her home up to Michele to hide out. "There's so many different emotions and to kind of have people watching every step of the way. But to have that time at [Hudson's] home to just really be in private with this for a moment — before getting back to work and before going home — I'm just so thankful to her," Michele has said.