Overview
- Kudrow said her mother, Nedra Stern, who died in 2020, seemed to rouse family members at the moment of her death according to family recollections she shared.
- While preparing a funeral slideshow in 2020, Kudrow says she noticed a prefilled message reading 'M-O-M' appear in a text box even though she had not typed it.
- Kudrow described a separate incident during the COVID lockdown when an 'XOXOXO' signature appeared in a message and her father later found an old letter from Nedra signed with similar markings.
- She told these stories to Mayim Bialik on the Breakdown podcast, with multiple outlets reporting the interview on July 22, 2026 as the immediate source of the accounts.
- Coverage presents the anecdotes as personal testimony without independent verification and does not offer technical confirmation, though observers note phone drafts, autofill or glitches could produce similar effects.