Actor David Schwimmer has admitted the theme song to Friends haunted him for years due to its overuse. Schwimmer, who began his acting career in 1989, rose to widespread fame five years later for his role as Ross Geller in the NBC sitcom Friends.

Friends” star David Schwimmer has opened up about fame and the impact the show’s huge success had on him, revealing that he struggled to listen to the theme tune for a while as he “just had heard it so many times.

The actor who played Ross Geller on the beloved sitcom recently appeared on Matt Lucas and David Walliams’ Making a Scene podcast, where he confessed that he never again wanted to hear “So no one told you life was gonna be this way…” at one point after the show ended.