Could this be any grosser?

Lisa Kudrow told British outlet The Times in a profile published last week that the writers room on “Friends” — which, she noted, was “mostly men” — often exhibited some pretty creepy behavior.

“There was definitely mean stuff going on behind the scenes,” Kudrow recalled. “Don’t forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers’ lines or it didn’t get the perfect response they could be like, ‘Can’t the bitch fucking read? She’s not even trying. She fucked up my line.’”

“The Comeback” star added that while these male writers would often belittle her and her female co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox on set, when they were in the privacy of the writers room, “the guys would be up late discussing their sexual fantasies about Jennifer and Courteney. It was intense.”

Kudrow added, “Oh, it could be brutal, but these guys — and it was mostly men in there — were sitting up until 3am trying to write the show so my attitude was, ‘Say what you like about me behind my back because then it doesn’t matter.’ ”

Apparently, Kudrow’s and Aniston’s takes on the precious writers’ lines weren’t too bad, considering they each won an Emmy for their performance on the beloved sitcom, in 1998 and 2002, respectively.

It’s unclear whether Kudrow heard things firsthand or just heard about the comments, but this is not the first time someone has brought up crass behavior from many of the writers on “Friends.”

In the early 2000s, former writers’ assistant Amaani Lyle, whose job included transcribing brainstorming sessions in the writers room, filed a sexual harassment case against the show’s parent company, Warner Bros. In the claim, Lyle noted the writers verbalized their sexual fantasies about Aniston and Cox and also “discussed scenes where Matthew LeBlanc’s character, Joey, turned into a serial rapist,” per the Guardian.

She also alleged that one writer “constantly made lewd and obscene comments, gestures and drawings” and some made “jokes about whether Courteney Cox was competently sexually servicing her boyfriend at the time, David Arquette.”

The case eventually made it to the California Supreme Court, which ruled the writers did not break the law because the lewd comments weren’t directly aimed at Lyle herself and had been a necessary part of the creative process.

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