6 most touching female friendships in Hollywood: from Jennifer Lopez’s bestie Leah Remini and Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox IRL, to high school pals Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman

Feb 27 , 2022

These female celebs have been gal-pals for many years. Photos: @spun_sugar1/Twitter, @courteneycoxofficial/Instagram, @Netflix/Twitter

Iconic Friends duo Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox are BFFs on and off screen – they were each other’s maid of honours and Aniston is godmother of Cox’s child

Leah Remini met J. Lo through an ex-boyfriend, Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman went to the same high school and Penélope Cruz and Salma Hayek shared a near-death experience

Good friends are hard to find, right? Fortunately for some female celebrities, they have found lifelong companions in other A-listers. Here’s some of the most touching celeb BFF stories in Hollywood.

We push each other. And we’ve had the majority of our lives spent side by side, really going through what real life is … we just have each other’s backs

Drew Barrymore on Cameron Diaz

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler met at a Chicago improv club in 1993

Fey and Poehler in the film Sisters (2015). Photo: Universal Pictures

Back when Poehler and Fey were cutting their teeth in the improv circuit, they met at Chicago’s ImprovOlympic theatre (now known as iO). In her biography Yes Please, Poehler recalls meeting Fey for the first time.

“[ImprovOlympic co-founder Charna Halpern] said there was another new improviser in another one of her classes whom she thought I would really like. Her name was Tina and she was like me but with brown hair,” she wrote.

The two had their own show at ImprovOlympic for a bit before joining the legendary Second City improv troupe. Since that fateful meeting more than 25 years ago, the duo has gone on to host the Golden Globes, star in the film Sisters together, and has created some of the most beloved SNL skits in recent history.

Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz’s sisterhood started when they were teenagers

Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, who starred together in the film Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, pose on the roof of a central Rome hotel, during a photo call in July 2003. Photo: AFP

More specifically, it started over a cup of coffee. Back in the 80s, Diaz, 16 at the time, grabbed a cup of joe from the coffee shop Barrymore worked at. According to E! Online, the two maintained a low-key friendship until 2002, when Barrymore offered Diaz a role on the Charlie’s Angels reboot she was producing.

Since then, the two have developed an unbreakable bond, with Barrymore telling Entertainment Tonight’s Lauren Zima in 2018 that she considers Diaz her sister.

“We have much more of that kind of relationship, we’re very honest with each other,” Barrymore told ET. “We push each other. And we’ve had the majority of our lives spent side by side, really going through what real life is, which is an everyday high and low and we just have each other’s backs.”

In September 2020, Barrymore invited Diaz and fellow Charlie’s Angels star Lucy Liu to be the first guests on her talk show, and they spoke about their relationship over the years.

“The thing that I love about our friendship is that we have been there in all the big and important moments, we’ve also been there in the small moments and the casual moments and the reason we are such good friends is because it’s real and we go through real stuff with each other. It’s not a Hollywood fairy tale,” Barrymore said.