Gwyneth Paltrow is reflecting on her pre-fame romance with Matthew Perry in the wake of the Friends actors sudden death this weekend.

The Shakespeare in Love actor and Goop founder on Sunday shared a sweet memory of her magical summer with Perry in 1993, roughly a year before Friends debuted.

I met Matthew Perry in 1993 at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts, Paltrow wrote on Instagram alongside a vintage headshot of Perry. We were both there for most of the summer doing plays. He was so funny and so sweet and so much fun to be with. We drove out to swim in creeks, had beers in the local college bar, kissed in a field of long grass. It was a magical summer.

According to Paltrow, Perry had already shot the pilot episode of Friends at the time of their meeting. Since the series had not debuted, however, he was not yet aware of the cultural phenomenon that it would become.

He was nervous, hoping his big break was just around the corner. It was, she explained.