Jennifer Aniston once bought a lemon and is still bitter about it.
The “Friends” star recently said. PopSugar which was her first major signing after landing the role of Rachel Green on the hit NBC sitcom, and she said it was a big 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 often saw the car on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. “It was a little white Mercedes 280 SL and it had been there for a long time. I mean, it could have been more than two years. And I always said, “I can’t wait, one day, one day [I’ll buy it].’ And one day I bought him, and then I rode him, and then I rode him again, and he never rode again.”
“It was a lemon and that’s why it was sitting there,” she continued. “And I didn’t know any better to control it, so it was just a beautiful 25-year mistake.”
This isn’t the first time Aniston has expressed regret for accepting the buzz. In 2021, she told InStyle’s “Ladies First” podcast that she paid the $13,000 asking price for the car, which “should have been an indicator” of its performance.
“The first year of ‘Friends’ happened and I was like, you know what, I’m going to buy that classic car because I’ve always loved that car,” she said. “Actually, I don’t think I got home earlier [died]. Honestly, it could have just been a car case and I was the fool who ended up buying it.
She may have felt like a fool, but the cast of Friends made $250,000 per episode. when the series first aired and traded at $1 million per episode during the show’s final years. So while $13,000 is a lot of money, the purchase didn’t brake bank for Aniston.
