Hollywood and fans of all ages are mourning the death of Matthew Perry, the beloved Chandler Bing from “Friends,” who was found drowned yesterday at his Pacific Palisades mansion in Los Angeles. No drugs in the house, for an actor who had long battled any kind of addiction in the past, but police found plenty of anti-anxiety and antidepressant medications: It will take months for the toxicology tests to produce results, police told law enforcement Agencies that rule out any suspicious origins. According to TMZ, Perry, 54, had been having a normal day before his death: He had played pickleball, a sport he was a fan of, for two hours at a club near his home. He then asked his assistant to get him a new iPhone and glasses. When the assistant returned from running errands, he found the actor unconscious in the hot tub and called emergency services.
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Shock and condolence were the underlying theme of the messages posted on social media by friends and colleagues of the sarcastic “Joey’s best friend” but also the most cynical and unhappy Central Park Café regulars in over 200 episodes of the ten seasons aired on NBC between 1994 and 2004. On behalf of Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc, the sitcom’s official profile on Instagram posted a joint message honoring Matthew, “a true gift to all of us.” Other former Friends members like Morgan Fairchild, Chandler’s mother on the sitcom, posted tributes. For Mira Sorvino, who starred with Perry in 1994’s Parallel Lives, the former co-star was “a sweet and tortured soul. May he find peace and happiness in heaven.” Among other things, a message from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with whom Matthew played as a child when his mother worked as a spokeswoman for Pierre, Justin’s father, the then prime minister in Ottawa. Matthew wasn’t alone on Friends: In his almost 40-year career, he made his debut as a teenager in 1979 in an episode of the crime series 240-Robert. The role of Chandler occupied him between the ages of 24 and 34. “You’re funny, but I don’t want to be there when you stop laughing. You have problems with intimacy. You use your humor to keep others at a distance. A singleton? Divorced parents before you hit puberty? By the book.” In an episode of the first season, she tells him, the psychologist Roger is the boyfriend of his girlfriend Phoebe. Matthew himself had admitted it: it was as if someone had followed him for a year and stolen all his jokes, “imitating his vision of the world, tired of life and humorous at the same time.” Perry had detailed his vicissitudes in the 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers and the Terrible Thing. Due to an accident in 1997, he was prescribed Vicodin and became so addicted that he was taking 55 tablets a day. To free himself from alcohol and drugs, he spent decades in detox centers. In 2018, he was threatened with death from a gastrointestinal perforation, so he underwent surgery and spent months in the hospital. As a reminder, Sky Series today presents the special “Friends: the Reunion”, in which the actor reunited with his historical colleagues two years ago on Stage 24 at Warner Studios in Burbank, the legendary stage that turned six near-debutants into global stars .
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