Despite her early A-list status, Grey’s career experienced a lull by the time the ’90s rolled around.

Grey struggled with stage fright, something which impacted her Season 1 role on “Friends.”

Here’s what we know about why she left the show.

Jennifer Grey smiling

“I had such bad anxiety because they kept changing the script.

It all made me so anxious that I could barely do it.”

Jennifer Grey’s famous father, Oscar- and Tony-winning Joel Grey, gets stage fright too.

Jennifer Grey and Jennifer Aniston

Perhaps most impressive of all, the actor continued in the competition evenafter an injury to her spine.

She went the extra mile to wave her “Friends”-era hesitations goodbye.

Derek Hough and Jennifer Grey