Jennifer Aniston was ‘one of the first to arrive’ at her Friends co-star Matthew Perry’s funeral – but ‘kept herself to herself’ throughout the simple, hour-long ceremony.

The actress, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, and David Schwimmer, arrived as a quartet as they prepared to say their last goodbyes to Perry at Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles.

They were joined outside the church by fellow cast mate Matt LeBlanc, while Perry’s tearful mother Suzanne Morrison, and Dateline journalist stepfather Keith, were in attendance, as was his father John .

He wrote in his memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing that they had first met three years before Friends started and he tried to date her but she turned him down.

But this early rejection didn’t stop Aniston and Perry from forming a close friendship during the 10 years they spent together on the set of Friends – with Aniston supporting him through his battle with drug addiction.

‘Nobody shed more tears for Matthew during the darkest points of his struggles with addiction than Jennifer,’ one close friend of the actress told DailyMail.com.