‘Friends’ Star Opens Up About Leaving Hollywood for a Spiritual Awakening

Jane Sibbett, best known for playing Ross Geller’s ex-wife Carol on Friends, made history with her role in one of TV’s first lesbian weddings. But thirty years after that groundbreaking moment, Sibbett has completely stepped away from Hollywood—and she’s finally revealing why.

In an exclusive interview, Sibbett shared how her life took a sharp turn after she left Los Angeles and moved to Hawaii in 2015. What began as a quiet relocation with her then-husband eventually turned into a deep spiritual awakening and an unexpected career in energy healing.

“For those of us who remember the ‘90s, I’ll always be Carol,” Sibbett says. “But my life has completely transformed. What I do now is about source energy, not scripts.”

After her move to the islands, she started holding goddess circles at her ranch in Topanga and eventually co-founded a production company, Wild Aloha Studios, with her husband. The pair even became keynote speakers at the Big Island Film Festival. But when their relationship ended, Sibbett was left to navigate heartbreak—and that’s when everything changed.

“I was on my knees,” she says. “That pain opened me up to something I never saw coming.”

The turning point came when she was working on a documentary about energy healer Abdy Electriciteh. What began as a production project turned into something much more intimate and personal. At one of Electriciteh’s events, he tapped her third eye, and she fell into what she describes as an hour-long state of pure bliss. When she awoke the next day, her hands were “dancing” above her head.

“It wasn’t scary—it was fascinating,” she recalls. “Each finger was moving on its own, like it had woken up.”

Since then, Sibbett has embraced her new calling, though she insists it’s unlike anything traditional. She never trained in Reiki or studied healing—her gift just emerged. “This just came in fully fleshed,” she says. “It’s not Reiki. It’s something else.”

At first, she resisted the role. “I never wanted it. I just wanted to act again,” she admits. “Being a healer was never the goal.”

But word spread, and one session turned into another. Today, Sibbett leads one-on-one sessions, virtual group circles, and even spiritual retreats. Her current project, Noon Miracles, is an online hub for artists, healers, and storytellers to collaborate and create in a shared space of intention and inspiration.

She credits her acting background for helping her understand how to let go and allow something bigger to take over. “As an actor, you surrender to the character,” she says. “That’s the same muscle I use now—I just surrender to the energy.”

Though she may never return to sitcom sets or red carpets, Sibbett isn’t looking back. “This journey wasn’t something I planned,” she says. “But it’s the most real thing I’ve ever done.”