Jennifer Aniston once purchased a lemon and remains bitter about it.
The “Friends” actress recently told PopSugar that her first large purchase after getting her part as Rachel Green on the hit NBC sitcom was a huge mistake.
“My first big splurge was on a Mercedes that had a ‘for sale’ sign on it for almost two years,” she said, noting that she frequently saw the car on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. “There was a little white 280 SL Mercedes and it was there for a long time. I mean, it could have been over two years. And I always was like, ‘I can’t wait, someday, someday [I’ll buy it].’ And one day I bought it, and then I drove it, and then drove it again, and it never drove again.”
“It was a lemon, and that’s why it had been sitting there,” she went on. “And I didn’t know any better to get it checked out, so that was just a nice 25-year-old mistake.”
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Jennifer Aniston has already expressed regret over purchasing the clunker. She told InStyle’s “Ladies First” podcast in 2021 that she spent $13,000 for the automobile, which “should’ve been an indicator” of how well it would run.
“The first year of ‘Friends’ happened, and I was like, you know what, I’m going to buy that antique car because I’ve always loved that car,” she said. “I don’t actually think I even made it home before it [died]. It might have honestly just been the shell of a car, and I was the sucker to finally purchase it.”
Jennifer Aniston has already expressed regret over purchasing the clunker. She told InStyle’s “Ladies First” podcast in 2021 that she spent $13,000 for the automobile, which “should’ve been an indicator” of how well it would run.
Perhaps she felt like a sucker, but the cast of “Friends” reportedly received $250,000 per episode when the show originally aired, and famously negotiated a one-million-dollar-per-episode pay cut in the show’s last years. So, while $13,000 is a substantial sum of money, Aniston’s purchase did not break the bank.
