Los Angeles, Dec 24 : ‘Friends’ star Lisa Kudrow gave her ex-boyfriend Conan O’Brien some unconventional encouragement when he was preparing to succeed David Letterman on NBC’s ‘Late Night’, New York Post reported.

As per Vanity Fair history of the first year of ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’, his then girlfriend, Kudrow (now 60), said, “I don’t know how much we talked about it. I just knew, ‘You’re trying to replace David Letterman."

She had said, “No one replaces David Letterman. You’re no one."