United Kingdom, Sept. 24 -- Jennifer Aniston leans on her "loving" friends and "comfort food" during tough times.

The former Friends star, 56, has opened up about how she copes on bad days and revealed she puts in a call to her closet pals and organises a get together or she stays home and scoffs burgers or Mexican food.

She told PEOPLE: "I have a really wonderful, loving, solid group of friends who are very funny on top of being wonderful human beings. And so, we make each other laugh.

"Honestly, having a group of friends over is always an instant pick-me-up ... [Or I'll be] making some sort of comfort food like pizza nights, burgers or Mexican food."

Jennifer added of her other option: "I'll go to my favorite restaurant with some gi...