Friends
Out of all the main characters inFriends , the quirkiest and also most mysterious one was , by far , Phoebe Buffay ( Lisa Kudrow ) , who had a very complicated backstory , and she was really homeless for years … but that does n’t make sense at all . Friendscontinues to be one of the groovy telecasting shows of all prison term , and its comer in the world of cyclosis has allowed countless rewatches , which in tour have made way for lots of questions about the character and the emergence of theories and plot of land trap .
Friendstook the audience to New York City to follow a grouping of six vernal adult as they juggle their social , personal , and professional lives while also deal out with everything adulthood constantly throw at them . Over the course of 10 time of year , viewer come to know Monica , Chandler , Joey , Phoebe , Rachel , and Rossquite well , and they also got to know the most important character of their backstories . While they all had their conflict , especially with their families , the one who had the most tragic and complicated backstory was Phoebe , who at one point stop up living in the street – and that part of her life makes no sentiency .
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Friends: Why Phoebe Was Homeless (& Why It Makes No Sense)?
Phoebe and her twinned baby , Ursula , were the result of a kinship between Phoebe Abbott and Frank Buffay , who were in a polyamorous relationship with Lily Buffay . However , Phoebe Abbott was n’t ready to be a mother , so Lily and Frank adopted the twins and raised them , but eld subsequently , Frank abandoned them and conjoin another woman . Lily also remarried , but her Modern husband ended up in jail and Lily killed herself , leavingPhoebe and Ursulaalone at the eld of 14 . After this tragical effect , and with her step - father in slammer , Phoebe cease up living in the streets , while Ursula , for some reason , run into care . It makes no sentience that only one of the twins went into maintenance while the other one was left in the streets , but what makes even less sense about this part of Phoebe ’s story is her grandmother . At the first ofFriends , Phoebe was living with her grandmother ( Lily ’s female parent ) , and she was very close to her , grow the enquiry of why she did n’t move in with her after Lily died .
Phoebe break down through a lot while live in the streets : she never attended high school or college , but she met behind a dumpster with a small group of people to larn French , and she was smooth-spoken in it , and she also learned a bit of Italian at some point . Phoebe also had to repair to mugging , and she even mugged a youthful Ross . Among her wildest stories is when she make hepatitis after “ a pimp spit in her oral cavity ” , and she went to jail at some point . Phoebe ’s backstory is definitely the most tragicand complex out of the main fictitious character inFriends , but she show everyone that , even though she live on through a lot , she still became a successful woman who , in the end , got what she never had : a loving family with her husband Mike Hannigan ( Paul Rudd ) and all her friends .
What Happened To Phoebe After Friends Ended?
Phoebe met Mike when Joey forgot he had to set her up on a day of the month with a friend , so he invited the first “ Mike ” he found at Central Perk . Mike and Phoebe turn out to be a gross match , and after a twain of obstacle , they got married in the concluding time of year ofFriends . It ’s unknownwhat happened to Phoebe afterFriendsended , but the spinoff seriesJoeyoffered a clue about what she was up to back then . In the pilot instalment , Joey mentioned that he leave New York because all of his protagonist were getting married and receive kids – by the end ofFriends , Ross and Chandler already had Emma and Monica and Chandler had just become parents , so it would be secure to assume that Mike and Phoebe were having a child , too , adding to Phoebe ’s happy termination .
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