Where Is Carol From ‘Friends’ Now? Jane Sibbett Talks Life After Hollywood
After Jane Sibbett rose to fame as Carol on Friends, she left Hollywood behind for a career change as an energy healer.
“It’s fascinating because I’m working on the memoir of this whole situation, and one of my mentors had said, ‘Go back before the gift.’ The gift has been here 10 years now,” Sibbett, 62, told People in an interview published on Wednesday, June 4. “When I work with the dancing hands, it’s not me. It’s source energy coming through me, and so I just feel nothing but bliss and joy and love when I am in this state.”
While living in Topanga, California, with her then-husband Karl Fink, Sibbett was hosting goddess circles for women. Sibbett noted that there “was a lot of spiritual activity” with groups ranging in size from 15 to 100 people. The pair went on to move to Hawaii in 2015, where they launched production company Wild Aloha Studios and were keynote speakers at the Big Island Film Festival.
“My husband and I split [when] we were in Hawaii, and I was on my knees because I was really brokenhearted by everything, and part of that was my stuff that I had to deal with,” she said. “He and I had been producing documentaries for healers who don’t call themselves healers, and one in particular, [Abdy Electriciteh]. My work with him suddenly became a part of this organization, because I’m really collaborative, so I wanted everyone to be in on this. [This healer] asked me to go from [working on] the documentaries to producing these live events, so it was a perfect synthesis of my belief in the gift of him [and] what he was doing and me coming off of Friends.”
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She continued, “I’m really a shy person, and so for me to step up into a crowd and introduce him all day long to all these people and have a different story, each and every time, I started to feel the way that source energy or God energy was moving through me.”
Sibbett noted that people began reaching out to her after that, with her first-ever experience being at one of Electriciteh’s events.
“He tapped me on my third eye and I went down, I passed out into the state of bliss for about an hour,” she said. “There was no thought, there was no fear, there was just — you can’t even say it, but on the other side of it, days later, it was bliss. Some people came up to me afterward and [said], ‘We see this light coming off of your hands,’ because while I was under [the healing trance], my hands started to dance.”
Sibbett recalled her “dancing hands” waking her up the next day.
“They were dancing above my head, and I began to just watch them with fascination, again, no fear, no thought, just watching as each digit was coming online. They were showing me how they could move independently without me,” she said, before Electriciteh called her a few days later to check-in. “He said, ‘Follow it, watch it, [and] we’ll see what happens.’”
Sibbett shared that she had never received formal training on energy healing and instead “just came in fully fleshed, immediately.” While she enjoyed hosting events, she wasn’t seeking this as a career initially.
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“I never wanted it [and] I wasn’t looking for it, I just wanted to go back to being an actor. That was much more fun,” she said. “I never had aspirations to be a healer. When I was working with the healers, I saw the troubles that they had, and so I’m like, that’s not something to aspire for.”
For Sibbett, her acting background — which included starring as Ross Geller’s ex-wife in the beloved sitcom — aided her healing gifts.
“We talk about the muse and the muse is flow,” she said. “A muse is a source coming through, and I think every actor worth their salt knows that they are embodied by the character. At some point, you give yourself over, [so] I understand why my body is trained to let itself go. That’s part of the actor crisscross there.”
