Were Ross and Rachel really on a break? Chloe the copy girl weighs in (2024)
We already know David Schwimmer thinks Ross and Rachel were on a break. Now, he has someone else from “Friends” in his corner.
While appearing on TODAY Wednesday to discuss his new Peaco*ck series, “Intelligence,” Schwimmer was asked about the infamous storyline from “Friends” when Angela Featherstone, the actress who played Chloe the copy girl — the woman Ross cheated on Rachel with — chimed in with a video message giving her take on the debate.
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“All I know is he was definitely on a break when he was with me," Featherstone said. "Would you tell Ross I own my own copy shop now if he ever wants anything done free?”
Earlier in the interview, Schwimmer remained adamant that Ross and Rachel were indeed on a break.
“There’s no question we were on a break. It’s not even debatable,” he said.
His comment echoes the opinion he shared last week on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
“Yeah, it’s not even a question. They were on a break,” he said.
The line “We were on a break” refers to Ross having a one-night stand with Chloe during the series' third season. Throughout the sitcom's run, he remained adamant that he and Rachel had broken up, but she maintained that they were “on a break.”
During his TODAY appearance, Schwimmer also continued to reassure fans there will be a “Friends” reunion, with the entire cast set to participate.
“There’s definitely going to be a ‘Friends’ reunion," he said. "We have a lot of the creative aspects of the show kind of worked out. It’s unscripted, but there are going to be some surprise funny bits. The real question is when, and we’re still trying to figure that out, because we want to do it when it’s safe.”
The highly anticipated reunion was supposed to shoot in front of a live audience for HBO Max in March but was postponed due to the coronavirus. During his appearance on “The Tonight Show,” Schwimmer said the plan was to shoot it in August, although that’s not set in stone.
“Honestly, we’re going to wait and see another week or two, if we all determine it’s really safe enough to do,” he said. “And if not, we’ll wait until it’s safe.”
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During the reunion, the cast agreed that Ross and Rachel were indeed on a break. While the cast might have agreed that the couple was on a break, some could argue that there is no excuse for Ross to sleep with another woman if he had any hopes of saving his relationship.
The episode was written by the show's creators, David Crane and Marta Kauffman, directed by James Burrows, and guest-stars James Michael Tyler as Gunther, and Angela Featherstone as Chloe, the girl from the Xerox shop whom Ross ends up sleeping with after looking for comfort when he and Rachel made the decision to take ...
The phrase to be on a break is also used by Paget Brewster in an interview titled "Friends of Friends Part II", featured on Friends: The Complete Series Collection. In a 2020 interview with Jimmy Fallon, David Schwimmer (who played Ross) said about Ross and Rachel "Yeah, it's not even a question, they were on a break."
"The One Where Ross And Rachel Take A Break" is the fifteenth episode of the third season of Friends, which aired on February 13, 1997. It marks the start of the 'We were on a break' era that carries on for a long time afterwards.
He is obsessive, petty, jealous and extremely possessive. All of these qualities are compounded by his insecurity. He slept with another woman right after 'they were on a break. ' So he was morally wrong even though technically he wasn't.
So...were they on a break or weren't they? "For the record," Aniston wrote on Instagram, "we were SO not on a break." Except that's not exactly what you said at the Friends reunion, Jen. When host James Corden asked each of the castmates if Ross and Rachel were on a break, the actress replied, "Absolutely yes."
Just like Ross didn't consider sleeping with the Xerox girl to be cheating, he just "didn't count" sleeping with the cleaning lady. This allowed him to pretend that he was more dedicated than others because he had only been with one woman.
Angela Featherstone played the "hot Xerox girl" Chloe who slept with Ross after he fought with Rachel. She appeared in the hit sitcom in 1997 for two episodes.
While appearing on TODAY Wednesday to discuss his new Peaco*ck series, “Intelligence,” Schwimmer was asked about the infamous storyline from “Friends” when Angela Featherstone, the actress who played Chloe the copy girl — the woman Ross cheated on Rachel with — chimed in with a video message giving her take on the ...
In Season 10, Episodes 17 and 18, "The Last One," Ross races to the airport to tell Rachel he loves her, hoping she won't get on the plane to Paris. Initially, she does, but eventually, Ross finds her standing in his doorway, and they get back together for good, finally ending their decade-long will-they-won't-they.
Aside from Ross repeating “we were on a break” nine times over the course of Friends 10 seasons, many of the other characters joined the cause and started using it as well.
Ross believed that they were broken up and while it was perhaps ill-judged to sleep with Chloe hours after their break-up, he didn't cheat on her. Indeed Rachel told Monica the following morning that she and Ross had broken up therefore if Ross wanted to sleep with someone else, he was free to do so.
So, Who Is Right? To psychotherapist Yoon Kane, LCSW, founder and CEO at Mindful Psychotherapy, Ross and Rachel shouldn't have been fighting over who was right and who was wrong. There's no “winner” in their argument because neither of them fought fairly. “You can't choose being right over the relationship.
Ross' daughter with Rachel, Emma Geller-Green, was born at the end of Season 8. Rachel's pregnancy was originally revealed in the season finale of Season 7. The conception of Emma was the result of a one-night stand, which was later revealed in the Season 8 episode, "The One With The Videotape".
If we are only relying on what was said, then it is true: Rachel and Ross were indeed on a break. But it was a very recent break, not yet well-defined. In fact, the very night they had the fight, they both attempted to reconnect, and the next day, Rachel confirmed this once again by telling Ross how sorry she was.
Moreover, a break still signifies a pause from a relationship, even if it is not as extreme as a permanent end celebrating their anniversary. Thus, Ross and Rachel were on a break. Even if it was said in the heat of the moment, it was still said, and Ross sleeping with the copy girl was not technically cheating.
"The One Where Ross And Rachel Take A Break” (season 3) - After a failed anniversary celebration, they argue over Rachel's friendship with her coworker, Mark, which prompts her to say they should “take a break.” "The One With The Morning After" (season 3) - Ross sleeps with Chloe, the girl from the copy place.
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