Lisa Kudrow reveals pain of hosting mother's funeral amid coronavirus

Lisa Kudrow has opened up about the difficulty of losing her mother amid the coronavirus crisis.

The Friends actress' mother, Nedra Stern, died in February, and Kudrow struggled with hosting a memorial where family and friends couldn't hug one another.

"I was the one who asked the rabbi to please let everyone know there was to be no hugging because we were all in an emergency room with her," Kudrow told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview on May 18 (US Time). "That was the hardest decision because we weren't there yet and we had only just heard the words 'social distancing.'"

Kudrow discussed how some people appreciated where she was coming from, but others hadn't adjusted to keeping physical distance yet.

"Some people [understood] and most people were just looking at me like I was a monster when I'd take two steps back, put up my hands and say, 'Hi, thanks for coming,'" Kudrow said. "That was hard."

The silver lining was that Kudrow got to honour her mother before the coronavirus restrictions intensified in the USA.

"Well, at least we got a funeral," she said. "And everyone was hugging but me. I just couldn't bear it if I got someone sick. From that moment on, I just acted like I've got it, so what do I need to do?"

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The actress revealed that the first person she can't wait to hug, when life gets back to normal, is her father.