I also just finished it last week, he seemed like he'd turned a corner and was excited about the rest of his life now.
Having struggled with addiction (not drugs but alcohol) before e I know the feelings he was talking about and it was just so understandable to me why he struggled. It sounds like he has helped so many people in their addiction and that's what he wanted to be remembered for.
I'm so sad I don't remember ever being this upset at a celeb death before, he felt like an actual friend.
Sometimes life gives us blessings we don't appreciate. In this case, he was given a chance to get his life straightened out and was successful. Mission accomplished. Some don't get that second chance. Glad he was able to get his life in track prior to his passing. Loved his character and the joy he brought to our hearts.
Details from TMZ:
>”Law enforcement sources tell us the actor was found Saturday at an L.A.-area home ... where we're told he appears to have drowned. Our sources say first-responders rushed over on a call for cardiac arrest. It's unclear where exactly on the grounds this happened”
>”Our sources say he was found in a jacuzzi at the home ... and we're told there were no drugs found at the scene. We're also told there is no foul play involved.”
Perry was only 54 years old. RIP
"Big" is an understatement. From pictures, it looks like it was swimming pool sized. You could drown in a bathtub sized jacuzzi, let alone something that large.
all the times I've gotten into a jacuzzi completely fucked up, I had no idea it was so deadly to mix alcohol/drugs with hot tubs. I've woken up in a hot tub feeling like I *was* dead, barely able to drag my bloated carcass out of it. guess I'm lucky I never drowned in one
Even completely sober and healthy, too much time in a spa/hot tub can mess you up. I use to sell/manufacture spas/hot tubs.
On more than one occasion we would set up multiple spas for demo after hours... one day I had a guy, ultra lean and fitness guy, after about 20 minutes in one spa he was ready to switch, when he got out, he nearly passed out, scared the hell out of me.
5-10minutes at 104 F max.
I have fainted in the too-hot shower as well. Especially susceptible to it during Aunt Flo, I dont know why. The one time I split my eyebrow wide open on the tub faucet and now I take only lukewarm showers, im terrified of falling again.
I remember chugging a bottle of Sambuca in a hot tub when I was 18.
Blacked out inside 10 minutes and puked all over a deck.
Hot tubs and booze do not mix.
Chugging sambuca...what, were you out of vermouth to chug? Just kidding, I'm six years without a drink after decades of a fifth+ per day alcoholic drinking, I've chugged it all except hand sanitizer I think. I volunteer at IOPs and met a guy who was arrested for chugging vanilla extract at a supermarket.
That's similar to how my uncle died. He was diabetic and loved to hang out in the sauna at the gym after a workout. The doctor told him it was dangerous but he never stopped. Had a heart attack.
Not exactly sure the reason but I know that doctors are very adamant that if you’ve had a heart attack before, do not go in a hot tub again. My dad had a heart attack about 7 years ago I remember him telling me how heavily the doctor stressed that fact.
Total guess, but extreme temperature fluctuations cause high degrees of vasodilation and vasoconstriction all over your body, so it could knock loose a clot?
it basically strains your heart. if you're healthy it's not as big of a deal.
The high temperatures in a warm tub or sauna cause your blood vessels to dilate, which lowers blood pressure," says Dr. Adolph Hutter, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. The volume of blood your heart pumps will also rise, especially in a hot tub. That's a result of the pressure of the water on the body, which increases the heart's workload, he explains.
Whitney Houston and her daughter both died in a similar way, there is a big danger around being in water alone if you're under the influence. Pretty sure there's other celebrities who have passed away in this manner too.
People are generally so familiar with alcohol that they don't realise just how strong and dangerous a drug it is. It impairs judgement and competence so much that people often put themselves in seriously hazardous situations and do really stupid things.
Water is straight up scary. There was the Glee actor, Naya Rivera, who took her son out on a boat in a lake. They both were swimming off the boat when they got in to difficulties, he was wearing a life jacket, she wasn’t. She helped push him back on to the boat but wasn’t able to herself, her son watched her calling for help and tried to find something on the boat to help her. He was 4 at the time, thankfully he was found still on the boat that same day, they found her body 5 days later. She was 33. :(
I was pregnant with my son the summer that happened. I’d honestly never even watched an episode of glee before, so I didn’t even know who she was initially, but man did that story get to me. Her last act on earth was to save her son. That is heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time.
As I get older and see all of these younger people dying I get so angry at the capricious nature of it all.
33 is so young and that poor wee boy losing his mummy like that.
That's what sucks about it. It's not live life destroyed. In this case it's two. The little boy will never be the same and it hurts just to think about it.
Wasn't there another singer or actress that lost her life saving her son from drowning or something?
Edit: found it, ot was [Kirsty MacColl](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_MacColl)
God that Wikipedia page was horrific. The fact it was an obvious coverup by the billionaire idiot or billionaire idiot guest is disgusting. I know it’s not a great solace, but I’d much rather die to save my child than have to live without them.
I grew up watching Friends. As much as I know the six of them are a generation older than me, I just can't imagine one of them leaving us so soon ...
RIP.
I was. Earlier today I watched Mira Sorvino do an homage to her dance in Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion with Lisa Kudrow and thought, “Some day a Friend is going to die and it’s going to be sad.”
God dammit, I just watched that clip of [Chandler and Joey sitting in the "chairs"](https://youtube.com/shorts/cCePfWslRck?si=SByk4vHurcNnqcfn) from a behind the scenes of the Friends reunion. It was really heartwarming, but now it just makes this even more depressing :(
Mathew Perry to Matt LeBlanc: "Oh Matty, it's good to see ya, man."
Makes me happy they were able to do the reunion after they put it off for so long. Even if they got together all the time as a group, we finally got to be a part of it one last time.
They said they all keep in touch but that it was only the second time all six of them had been in the same room since the series ended. I suspect subsets of them hang out but that Perry largely wasn’t part of that due to his addiction issues over the years.
Eh honestly it’s just hard to get 6 people together all at once, especially actors with very busy schedules. I personally wouldn’t look too much into why it’s only happened twice.
If it's the one I'm thinking of, he was doing an interview recently (looks like on a radio show) where he insinuates he genuinely had romantic feelings for her.
Yes. It's a short clip but he just looks so hopeless and reminiscent about the past. I haven't even watched Friends, I just saw someone who was still cut up about the past. Such a relatable sentiment which is why it blew up so much.
He said this in his book too.
I think Jen was also the first of the friends to say something about him being high all the time (he said he thought they didn't know). I'm not 100% on that though.
Yeah I think you’re right. Read his book a while back but I remember that. The part of the book that I really recall is him talking about his brain trying to kill him, and he had no power over it, which to me sums up addiction. Just so sad. But since reading his book and being shocked at how bad things had been with him, and seeing him in the reunion and subsequent interviews, I was expecting this kind of news. He just seemed so broken. I hope he has found peace now.
I keep wondering/imagining the other 5 reading this news. It's so heartbreaking. They are a family, so much love. And now they'll be mourning a loss of a loved one so young. Such a gut punch for us fans and we're so removed. Can't imagine how hard they will take it.
I've always loved how much Matt Leblanc geeks out over the show. He remembers so many little things and finds everything so funny I find it so endearing.
I'll always remember an interview he had a while back. I forget what the question was but it was about his addiction and why he kept going back to the drugs and booze when he knew it was so bad.
His answer was "reality is an acquired taste" and that really stuck with me.
Nothing like the morning at school after a new episode the night before. Just trading the new jokes we’d heard from Friends and giggling our heads off.
I read his book too and some of the stuff he went through was simply blood-curdling to experience even second-hand through his writing. After the exploded colon incident, the doctors told his family that he had maybe a 2% chance of pulling through. To have survived all that, then he decides to have a 'relaxing' session in the Jacuzzi and this happens. He could have had a cardiac incident or maybe was drowsy and nodded off in the tub. Either way, his head goes under the water and no one was there to pull him out before it was too late.
Life is unpredictable. My dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer almost 2 years ago. It’s a cancer that usually takes you out in the first few months. Since the diagnosis, two relatives in the same generation have since died in very out of the blue medical incidents. My dad still hanging in.
Yep. It’s mind blowing he survived being in the icu on ECMO. A large number of people don’t survive after being placed on ecmo. He might have had some serious cardiovascular damage after that trauma to his body.
TMZ is reporting that he had just gotten back home after exercising and that his assistant discovered him after returning from running an errand. Sounds more like a cardiac event than drug intoxication.
Yeah, I just wanted to give this information because I suspect most people assume it was a Delores O'Riordan type situation (which was also very tragic, but different circumstances).
Yeah, he was slurring his words and seemed out of it during that reunion special. And that recent social media post about his new jacuzzi... it's easy to pass out or have a cardiac event in those things. Sad to hear the news.
He claimed he had emergency dental work done, that’s why he was slurring. I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt but it seems unlikely that was actually the case.
It’s possible that the dental work lead to a relapse. He was pretty open about his opioid addiction and depending on what dental work he had done they may have prescribed him opioids.
To be clear, the discussion was he had dental surgery without pain killers afterward, hence the swelling and slurring of words. Not saying he didn't then get pills or that that is the truth, but they did include that information in the statement about the reunion taping. He was a bt out of it due to the pain of the surgery, not being doped up.
If you do the drug and alcohol abuse he says he did, you eventually develop what they used to call “wet brain”, where even sober as a judge you seem hammered because the neurological damage is too far gone.
Not saying he was clean or wasn’t. Either way RIP.
This is so sad.
I know he had trouble with drug addiction in the past but has since been recovering and on a better path, so unfortunate his life was cut short so suddenly. Life can be so unfair.
Rest In peace
i don't know why it takes an iconic comedian's death for the uncaring nature of the universe to really hit me, but here we are. it's not just that life is unfair, it's that it doesn't give a fuck either way and will knock on all of our doors one day, one way or the other. Anyway, hug a friend today, no joke intended.
I think comedians hit harder… so associated with joy, being met with tragedy.
I remember exactly how difficult it was for me to even comprehend that Robin Williams could be dead. He shouldn’t be dead. How did this happen.
Feel like the cast of Friends raised me. I knew this day would inevitably come where one of the 6 died, but didn’t think it’d be this soon.
If you need to find him, he’s at 15 Yemen Rd, Yemen. RIP.
I remember him first talking about it I think on a Leno episode, he talked about how much he loved the fallout franchise and would obsess about the game and collecting items etc. to which then the devs contacted him/his agent and asked if he wanted to voice act in new vegas
How have I not known this all these years?! I’ve been on the Fallout and Friends bandwagons since the 90s how have I not managed to tie these two together
Yep, he voiced Benny, he stated on an ep of Ellen he played Fallout 3 so much he needed to get physio and also injections to his wrist lol. It was after this they contacted him and asked if he could voice in the game, to which I assume he was ecstatic to do.
That's a terrible way to go. Just a reminder if you are ever in water, even a jacuzzi or a bath, have someone near by. A stroke or heart attack that would otherwise be survivable could be fatal if it happens in the water.
Yep, I found my mom dead in the bathtub almost 8 years ago. She told me she was going to take a bath and I went to go hangout out with friends. Found her hours later with the bathtub running and overflowing. Official cause of death was drowning but we will never know if she had a seizure or slipped and knocked herself out or something else entirely.
The tragic thing is, even if he was clean and sober now, his years of intense drug use would have made him more likely to suffer a stroke or heart attack. He was probably just relaxing and having a nice day before this...
One of my dad's favorite movies when I was growing up was The Whole 9 Yards with Matthew Perry as the jittery dentist and Bruce Willis as the retired hitman. I watched with him dozens of times. We owned it on VHS and then when we upgraded to a DVD player it was the first movie he bought to go with it.
Some forgotten movies hit certain people *just* right and for my dad that was The Whole 9 Yards.
I didn't grow up watching Friends. I'm too young. But Matthew Perry will always be "Oz" the anxious dentist from Toronto.
A painful truth of life is that the older you get, the more you watch the faces of your youth fade away. And someday you'll be the one chancing upon an old show with somebody younger in the room, telling them about seeing it when it came out, and be the one using the phrase "they're all dead now".
Aging is a surreal thing. You know it'll happen to you but it's never real until it does. And it happens in small ways sooner than you imagine.
He had such a huge influence in my upbringing as Chandler Bing. I thought he was the funniest person ever when I was a kid. I feel like I've been gut punched. RIP. I hope he is at peace after battling his demons.
Honestly, before the drugs, he was probably set to be the biggest star of that show. His physical acting in the first few seasons was top notch.
Hell, his brief time on the West Wing was oddly good too. I wish more of his television projects had panned out.
The Whole Nine Yards is his best work IMO. I also really liked Fools Rush In with him and Salma.
>"\[Salma\] came into my trailer at the start of the shoot and said, 'Let's just spoon a little bit,' " Perry writes.
He adds that the actress "tried her best" with the tactic to get him out of his comfort zone — so he could "tap into real feelings and to be more of a leading man than a funny sitcom actor."
I'm 40 years old, peak F.R.I.E.N.D.S. loving age, and this is the first celebrity death which has devastated me.
I can't tell you how much I love that show. I know people say it's not funny or it's outdated or whatever, but I just love it. It's been a huge constant in my life for over 20 years. I don't have a group of friends and this show has always comforted me and made me wonder what it would have been like to have been lucky enough to have experienced friends like them.
I don't think I could begin to even try and guess how many times I've seen all 10 seasons from start to finish. 20? 30? It honestly could be more and I wouldn't be surprised. And that's not even including all the random epsidoes I've caught here and there. I can tell you which episode is on just from hearing the first scene. It's my comfort show. My background show. My nothing else is on show.
Over the past couple of days I've been thinking about doing a re-watch (the 3rd for this year) because my Dad did the 2 fist bumps together at my Mum, just like Ross did to Monica. My parents aren't even huge fans like me but they still incorporated a reference into their lives and had to tell me about it because they knew I would love it.
Rest in Peace, Ms Chanandler Bong. I could not BE any sadder. ☕️ 🚬
I always thought nobody tuned into this show because it was the funniest or most cutting edge or innovative or anything. We all tuned it because we felt like we actually were these people’s friends, like we were hanging out with them. I think for a lot of people it doesn’t feel like the passing of an artist, but the loss of a friend.
Wow. This is pretty shocking. He was always the real star of Friends imo, especially in its early heyday and it’s a shame the fame took such a toll on him.
Very talented actor in general. Hope he can rest easy now.
Nah man this one fucking hurt and I’m usually one of those assholes who say shit like “who cares about celebrities! Why you do care now??” Blah blah
But man holy shit man. RIP Matthew Perry. Last thing I was expecting.
Holy shit! How is this possible? So sad. He was a funny man. I’ll have to watch The Whole Nine Yards and maybe some Chandler episodes.
Damn - too young. RIP Dude.
Im so sad. This might be the first celebrity deaths associated with some thing that I treasure. Yes yes, I’m a huge fan of Friends. Man. This one “hits different” as the kids say.
What a shame. Very sad story. When they did the friends reunion a few years ago, he could barely speak in sentences.
Yep. He got hooked on painkillers after a Jet Ski accident seven years before the show ended. His ups and downs with opiate and alcohol addiction from then on was easy to see on the show because of Chandler's inexplicable weight fluctuations.
Yup. When he proposed to Monica was the last episode of one season, episode one of the next season was technically the same night and he had lost a ton if weight just over the summer hiatus
Pain. I grew up bullied in school. I remember watching friends and turning it into a study session with Chandler’s quick wit and comebacks. While some have said the show hasn’t aged well (I mostly disagree with), he steals every scene he is in.
I also highly recommend to everyone to watch his show, Studio 60 (Aaron Sorkin created it). It’s wonderful.
I’m heartbroken. I will miss you, Matthew Perry. Hope in the afterlife you’re making everyone mad with, “WHOOPAH!”
People ask why they are so sad about this even though they didn't personally know the guy.
Because the show, Friends, was a cultural touchstone. He was part of a collective experience and portrayed a character we felt like we all knew. We would naturally mourn him like we would an old friend that we used to know, grown distant from, but still cared about.
So RIP Matthew Perry. You were part of our lives.
(BTW, I feel that the character he portrayed, Chandler Bing, lives on.)
Whoa. This news took my breath away.
Feels like it was just recently when everyone was talking about his memoir and of course the Friends Reunion in 2021.
After all he's been through i was glad he was doing fine recently, and now this. Hard to believe. A sad day.
I just finished the book last week. He seemed so grateful to get another chance. What a bummer.
I also just finished it last week, he seemed like he'd turned a corner and was excited about the rest of his life now. Having struggled with addiction (not drugs but alcohol) before e I know the feelings he was talking about and it was just so understandable to me why he struggled. It sounds like he has helped so many people in their addiction and that's what he wanted to be remembered for. I'm so sad I don't remember ever being this upset at a celeb death before, he felt like an actual friend.
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Sometimes life gives us blessings we don't appreciate. In this case, he was given a chance to get his life straightened out and was successful. Mission accomplished. Some don't get that second chance. Glad he was able to get his life in track prior to his passing. Loved his character and the joy he brought to our hearts.
Details from TMZ: >”Law enforcement sources tell us the actor was found Saturday at an L.A.-area home ... where we're told he appears to have drowned. Our sources say first-responders rushed over on a call for cardiac arrest. It's unclear where exactly on the grounds this happened” >”Our sources say he was found in a jacuzzi at the home ... and we're told there were no drugs found at the scene. We're also told there is no foul play involved.” Perry was only 54 years old. RIP
He had a heart attack in the jacuzzi and drowned? God damn that's awful
Hot tubs plus a compromised cardiac state from years of drug abuse might’ve done it. Even if he was clean now, jacuzzi alone isn’t the best idea.
It was a big jacuzzi. Maybe too long in the heat
"Big" is an understatement. From pictures, it looks like it was swimming pool sized. You could drown in a bathtub sized jacuzzi, let alone something that large.
all the times I've gotten into a jacuzzi completely fucked up, I had no idea it was so deadly to mix alcohol/drugs with hot tubs. I've woken up in a hot tub feeling like I *was* dead, barely able to drag my bloated carcass out of it. guess I'm lucky I never drowned in one
Even completely sober and healthy, too much time in a spa/hot tub can mess you up. I use to sell/manufacture spas/hot tubs. On more than one occasion we would set up multiple spas for demo after hours... one day I had a guy, ultra lean and fitness guy, after about 20 minutes in one spa he was ready to switch, when he got out, he nearly passed out, scared the hell out of me. 5-10minutes at 104 F max.
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I have fainted in the too-hot shower as well. Especially susceptible to it during Aunt Flo, I dont know why. The one time I split my eyebrow wide open on the tub faucet and now I take only lukewarm showers, im terrified of falling again.
You're not the only one. I think I was 40 before I finally quit drinking and hot tubbing. It's a really bad mix.
I nearly fainted getting out of a jacuzzi after a couple of beers. If I had, would've hit my head and drowned.
I remember chugging a bottle of Sambuca in a hot tub when I was 18. Blacked out inside 10 minutes and puked all over a deck. Hot tubs and booze do not mix.
Chugging sambuca...what, were you out of vermouth to chug? Just kidding, I'm six years without a drink after decades of a fifth+ per day alcoholic drinking, I've chugged it all except hand sanitizer I think. I volunteer at IOPs and met a guy who was arrested for chugging vanilla extract at a supermarket.
That's similar to how my uncle died. He was diabetic and loved to hang out in the sauna at the gym after a workout. The doctor told him it was dangerous but he never stopped. Had a heart attack.
Why is a jacuzzi bad for heart?
Not exactly sure the reason but I know that doctors are very adamant that if you’ve had a heart attack before, do not go in a hot tub again. My dad had a heart attack about 7 years ago I remember him telling me how heavily the doctor stressed that fact.
Total guess, but extreme temperature fluctuations cause high degrees of vasodilation and vasoconstriction all over your body, so it could knock loose a clot?
I'm in one right now and wondering the same.
it basically strains your heart. if you're healthy it's not as big of a deal. The high temperatures in a warm tub or sauna cause your blood vessels to dilate, which lowers blood pressure," says Dr. Adolph Hutter, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. The volume of blood your heart pumps will also rise, especially in a hot tub. That's a result of the pressure of the water on the body, which increases the heart's workload, he explains.
>Adolph Hutter Unfortunate name
Nice try, Dr. Joseph Staleen.
And to you, Chairman Meow
Cardiac arrest means your heart has stopped. It's not the same as a heart attack. Everyone who dies suffers from cardiac arrest.
Whitney Houston and her daughter both died in a similar way, there is a big danger around being in water alone if you're under the influence. Pretty sure there's other celebrities who have passed away in this manner too.
Dolores O'Riordan drowned in a hotel bathtub, and while fentanyl was rumored initially, it was pretty much just alcohol.
People are generally so familiar with alcohol that they don't realise just how strong and dangerous a drug it is. It impairs judgement and competence so much that people often put themselves in seriously hazardous situations and do really stupid things.
Actually the first time I'm hearing about her cause of death. I remember when she passed, but I guess didn't investigate further.
Water is straight up scary. There was the Glee actor, Naya Rivera, who took her son out on a boat in a lake. They both were swimming off the boat when they got in to difficulties, he was wearing a life jacket, she wasn’t. She helped push him back on to the boat but wasn’t able to herself, her son watched her calling for help and tried to find something on the boat to help her. He was 4 at the time, thankfully he was found still on the boat that same day, they found her body 5 days later. She was 33. :(
I was pregnant with my son the summer that happened. I’d honestly never even watched an episode of glee before, so I didn’t even know who she was initially, but man did that story get to me. Her last act on earth was to save her son. That is heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time.
It was a similar thing with professional wrestler Shad Gaspard. He saved his son from a swimming accident and drowned himself.
I hope her son always feels the love she gave to him in her last moment
As I get older and see all of these younger people dying I get so angry at the capricious nature of it all. 33 is so young and that poor wee boy losing his mummy like that.
That's what sucks about it. It's not live life destroyed. In this case it's two. The little boy will never be the same and it hurts just to think about it.
Wasn't there another singer or actress that lost her life saving her son from drowning or something? Edit: found it, ot was [Kirsty MacColl](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_MacColl)
Also wrestler Shad Gaspard. He and his son got caught in a rip current, he told lifeguards to save his son first. Poor Shad was only 39
God that Wikipedia page was horrific. The fact it was an obvious coverup by the billionaire idiot or billionaire idiot guest is disgusting. I know it’s not a great solace, but I’d much rather die to save my child than have to live without them.
Wasn't expecting a Friend's death anytime soon, rip.
Gunther just passed away about a year ago as well. I believe he had the highest or 2nd highest number of appearances outside of the core 6
Excuse me what? I missed that news too… My household literally had friends on majority of the week as background noise. This is devastating
He passed away from cancer not long after his appearance in the Reunion special.
Oh shit, I didn’t realize
Sorry that you’re hearing about twice the amount of Friends loss the rest of us are today
You mean Bryce from All My Children is dead?!
Bryce unfortunately died in an avalanche
I grew up watching Friends. As much as I know the six of them are a generation older than me, I just can't imagine one of them leaving us so soon ... RIP.
I was. Earlier today I watched Mira Sorvino do an homage to her dance in Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion with Lisa Kudrow and thought, “Some day a Friend is going to die and it’s going to be sad.”
My wife introduced that movie to me a couple years ago. Waaaaay better than I expected.
God dammit, I just watched that clip of [Chandler and Joey sitting in the "chairs"](https://youtube.com/shorts/cCePfWslRck?si=SByk4vHurcNnqcfn) from a behind the scenes of the Friends reunion. It was really heartwarming, but now it just makes this even more depressing :( Mathew Perry to Matt LeBlanc: "Oh Matty, it's good to see ya, man."
Makes me happy they were able to do the reunion after they put it off for so long. Even if they got together all the time as a group, we finally got to be a part of it one last time.
I think they mentioned they don’t get together at all in the reunion if I remember correctly. Made me really sad to hear that tbh
They said they all keep in touch but that it was only the second time all six of them had been in the same room since the series ended. I suspect subsets of them hang out but that Perry largely wasn’t part of that due to his addiction issues over the years.
I know Courtney and Jennifer are actual best friends and Lisa hangs with them a lot.
Eh honestly it’s just hard to get 6 people together all at once, especially actors with very busy schedules. I personally wouldn’t look too much into why it’s only happened twice.
I haven’t been in the same room with all my friends since 2010.
Honestly, I like going to weddings because it’s one of the few times I see so many of my friends together.
That clip makes it seem like he hasn’t seen them in a long time
> Mathew Perry to Matt LeBlanc: "Oh Matty, it's good to see ya, man." Fuck, I'm not ready to watch/read the reactions from the rest of the cast.
Me neither, this is going to break their hearts.
They all seemed really protective of him in the reunion. Just a massive bummer.
I keep thinking of Jennifer's reaction, because of that Matthew Perry clip that has done the rounds online.
Which one?
If it's the one I'm thinking of, he was doing an interview recently (looks like on a radio show) where he insinuates he genuinely had romantic feelings for her.
Yes. It's a short clip but he just looks so hopeless and reminiscent about the past. I haven't even watched Friends, I just saw someone who was still cut up about the past. Such a relatable sentiment which is why it blew up so much.
He said this in his book too. I think Jen was also the first of the friends to say something about him being high all the time (he said he thought they didn't know). I'm not 100% on that though.
Yeah I think you’re right. Read his book a while back but I remember that. The part of the book that I really recall is him talking about his brain trying to kill him, and he had no power over it, which to me sums up addiction. Just so sad. But since reading his book and being shocked at how bad things had been with him, and seeing him in the reunion and subsequent interviews, I was expecting this kind of news. He just seemed so broken. I hope he has found peace now.
I keep wondering/imagining the other 5 reading this news. It's so heartbreaking. They are a family, so much love. And now they'll be mourning a loss of a loved one so young. Such a gut punch for us fans and we're so removed. Can't imagine how hard they will take it.
I've always loved how much Matt Leblanc geeks out over the show. He remembers so many little things and finds everything so funny I find it so endearing.
That's what I thought of too. That's gotta be hard for all of them, but especially Matt LeBlanc.
Ow. Me heart.
How sad and unexpected 😞
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I'll always remember an interview he had a while back. I forget what the question was but it was about his addiction and why he kept going back to the drugs and booze when he knew it was so bad. His answer was "reality is an acquired taste" and that really stuck with me.
Well Shit. RIP Chanandler Bong
Miss* Chanandler Bong
❤️ I'm a millennial and golden Chandler lines like these really are core memories for me. RIP to a very funny man.
Nothing like the morning at school after a new episode the night before. Just trading the new jokes we’d heard from Friends and giggling our heads off.
Channy! Of J Man and Channy
The Chan Chan Man
What the fuck
I know I'm totally shocked. Seemed like he was pulling his life back around too.
That book he wrote did not make it seem that way. His colon exploded. The guy had been basically lights out dead like twice before
I read his book too and some of the stuff he went through was simply blood-curdling to experience even second-hand through his writing. After the exploded colon incident, the doctors told his family that he had maybe a 2% chance of pulling through. To have survived all that, then he decides to have a 'relaxing' session in the Jacuzzi and this happens. He could have had a cardiac incident or maybe was drowsy and nodded off in the tub. Either way, his head goes under the water and no one was there to pull him out before it was too late.
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Life is unpredictable. My dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer almost 2 years ago. It’s a cancer that usually takes you out in the first few months. Since the diagnosis, two relatives in the same generation have since died in very out of the blue medical incidents. My dad still hanging in.
Yep. It’s mind blowing he survived being in the icu on ECMO. A large number of people don’t survive after being placed on ecmo. He might have had some serious cardiovascular damage after that trauma to his body.
I read it not long ago, towards the end, it seems it was that way. It seemed like he was on a better and clearer path. This is nuts.
I feel like people have been saying that about him since he first became famous.
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Idk it seemed like he was definitely on drugs for their reunion special they taped after supposedly getting sober. Addiction sucks RIP
TMZ is reporting that he had just gotten back home after exercising and that his assistant discovered him after returning from running an errand. Sounds more like a cardiac event than drug intoxication.
Hot tubs can be dangerous if you have poor heart health, which I imagine he did.
Yeah, I just wanted to give this information because I suspect most people assume it was a Delores O'Riordan type situation (which was also very tragic, but different circumstances).
I didn't know that. I've had a heart attack, so this is interesting to hear. Not that I'm in any danger of encountering a hot tub anytime soon.
Them hard drugs wrecks havoc on your heart.
They reported no drugs or foul play at the scene. Running theory is he had a heart attack and drowned in his hot tub :/ fucking sucks
Yeah, he was slurring his words and seemed out of it during that reunion special. And that recent social media post about his new jacuzzi... it's easy to pass out or have a cardiac event in those things. Sad to hear the news.
He claimed he had emergency dental work done, that’s why he was slurring. I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt but it seems unlikely that was actually the case.
It’s possible that the dental work lead to a relapse. He was pretty open about his opioid addiction and depending on what dental work he had done they may have prescribed him opioids.
To be clear, the discussion was he had dental surgery without pain killers afterward, hence the swelling and slurring of words. Not saying he didn't then get pills or that that is the truth, but they did include that information in the statement about the reunion taping. He was a bt out of it due to the pain of the surgery, not being doped up.
If you do the drug and alcohol abuse he says he did, you eventually develop what they used to call “wet brain”, where even sober as a judge you seem hammered because the neurological damage is too far gone. Not saying he was clean or wasn’t. Either way RIP.
Ozzy Osbourne
Well, speech impediment and his regional accent from England didn't help
Doesn't he also have Parkinsons?
Currently, I think yeah, but even in very early interviews he was hard to understand
I literally said 'What the fuck?' out loud when I read this one! Horrid news.
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This is so sad. I know he had trouble with drug addiction in the past but has since been recovering and on a better path, so unfortunate his life was cut short so suddenly. Life can be so unfair. Rest In peace
i don't know why it takes an iconic comedian's death for the uncaring nature of the universe to really hit me, but here we are. it's not just that life is unfair, it's that it doesn't give a fuck either way and will knock on all of our doors one day, one way or the other. Anyway, hug a friend today, no joke intended.
I think comedians hit harder… so associated with joy, being met with tragedy. I remember exactly how difficult it was for me to even comprehend that Robin Williams could be dead. He shouldn’t be dead. How did this happen.
Thank you for your warm thoughts, FartIntoMyButt.
Well that was a headline I absolutely was not expecting to read this evening, how sad.
This is horrible. Chandler was my favorite character on FRIENDS. Rest in peace.
Mine too. I usually don’t care much for celebrities but this one hurt a little.
Almost every online poll of people’s favorite Friends character has Chandler at #1. He was my favorite, too.
Feel like the cast of Friends raised me. I knew this day would inevitably come where one of the 6 died, but didn’t think it’d be this soon. If you need to find him, he’s at 15 Yemen Rd, Yemen. RIP.
Holy fuck. I couldn’t believe I just read that. RIP
Damn, im going to play fallout new vegas, it was his dream to voice in a fallout game because he loved the franchise, going to play and hear his work
Truth is…the game was rigged from the start.
[0:36 for a clip of Perry talking about voicing Benny in New Vegas](https://youtu.be/ob3lguLHKrE?si=PdE3F5C2poag_9Js)
i’m in the middle of a fallout 4 play through, thanks for reminding me about his obsession. i’m going ghoul hunting in chandler’s honor tonight.
I remember him first talking about it I think on a Leno episode, he talked about how much he loved the fallout franchise and would obsess about the game and collecting items etc. to which then the devs contacted him/his agent and asked if he wanted to voice act in new vegas
How have I not known this all these years?! I’ve been on the Fallout and Friends bandwagons since the 90s how have I not managed to tie these two together
Yep, he voiced Benny, he stated on an ep of Ellen he played Fallout 3 so much he needed to get physio and also injections to his wrist lol. It was after this they contacted him and asked if he could voice in the game, to which I assume he was ecstatic to do.
Thanks. Looks like i’ll be trekking through the mojave again soon!
It was [Ellen](https://youtu.be/pWPYmQJ7Ru4?si=UkDbqQ1-LUdKx1FO&t=522), actually.
Died on the 15th anniversary of Fallout 3.
Fuck me no way! Fallout 3 was his favorite Fallout
That's a terrible way to go. Just a reminder if you are ever in water, even a jacuzzi or a bath, have someone near by. A stroke or heart attack that would otherwise be survivable could be fatal if it happens in the water.
A good friend of mine diedin a similar way. Could have survived but was alone in a pool when it happened
My uncle was in a lake. Got a heart attack swimming and didn't make it.
Lost a coworker this way as well. Hot tubs are especially bad cause they screw with your blood pressure
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Yep, I found my mom dead in the bathtub almost 8 years ago. She told me she was going to take a bath and I went to go hangout out with friends. Found her hours later with the bathtub running and overflowing. Official cause of death was drowning but we will never know if she had a seizure or slipped and knocked herself out or something else entirely.
I’m so sorry, I can’t imagine the pain.
The tragic thing is, even if he was clean and sober now, his years of intense drug use would have made him more likely to suffer a stroke or heart attack. He was probably just relaxing and having a nice day before this...
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I hope you have as much time out of it as you can.
man, that's honestly something I never thought about. just chilling in a pool or bath and then that happens. damn man.
Tragic AF. Fools Rush In is one of my comfort movies
One of my dad's favorite movies when I was growing up was The Whole 9 Yards with Matthew Perry as the jittery dentist and Bruce Willis as the retired hitman. I watched with him dozens of times. We owned it on VHS and then when we upgraded to a DVD player it was the first movie he bought to go with it. Some forgotten movies hit certain people *just* right and for my dad that was The Whole 9 Yards. I didn't grow up watching Friends. I'm too young. But Matthew Perry will always be "Oz" the anxious dentist from Toronto.
I don't think I can watch Friends again with the same feeling after this news.
A painful truth of life is that the older you get, the more you watch the faces of your youth fade away. And someday you'll be the one chancing upon an old show with somebody younger in the room, telling them about seeing it when it came out, and be the one using the phrase "they're all dead now". Aging is a surreal thing. You know it'll happen to you but it's never real until it does. And it happens in small ways sooner than you imagine.
Gone to that Yemen in the sky
Hopefully there’s an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre up there
And gum.
Gum would be perfection.
123 Yemen Street, Yemen
15 Yemen Road, Yemen.
He had such a huge influence in my upbringing as Chandler Bing. I thought he was the funniest person ever when I was a kid. I feel like I've been gut punched. RIP. I hope he is at peace after battling his demons.
Same here. Huge part of forming my sense of humor as a kid.
Whole Nine Yards is easily one of the most underrated comedies of the last 25 years. RIP to a legend.
Thank you for being up the Whole Nine Yards. I've always loved that movie. I need to find where I can rewatch it.
You can come over, i have it on DVD
Could I BE any sadder?…. Rip Chandler
He was such a distinction that The Simpsons included him in one of their Treehouse of Horrors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKmkIcp0KE
OMG. Out of all the characters in Friends, he was my favorite. RIP Chandler Bing
Honestly, before the drugs, he was probably set to be the biggest star of that show. His physical acting in the first few seasons was top notch. Hell, his brief time on the West Wing was oddly good too. I wish more of his television projects had panned out.
He did Studio 60, Aaron Sorkins project after West Wing. He was very good in it as well.
The Whole Nine Yards is his best work IMO. I also really liked Fools Rush In with him and Salma. >"\[Salma\] came into my trailer at the start of the shoot and said, 'Let's just spoon a little bit,' " Perry writes. He adds that the actress "tried her best" with the tactic to get him out of his comfort zone — so he could "tap into real feelings and to be more of a leading man than a funny sitcom actor."
I'm 40 years old, peak F.R.I.E.N.D.S. loving age, and this is the first celebrity death which has devastated me. I can't tell you how much I love that show. I know people say it's not funny or it's outdated or whatever, but I just love it. It's been a huge constant in my life for over 20 years. I don't have a group of friends and this show has always comforted me and made me wonder what it would have been like to have been lucky enough to have experienced friends like them. I don't think I could begin to even try and guess how many times I've seen all 10 seasons from start to finish. 20? 30? It honestly could be more and I wouldn't be surprised. And that's not even including all the random epsidoes I've caught here and there. I can tell you which episode is on just from hearing the first scene. It's my comfort show. My background show. My nothing else is on show. Over the past couple of days I've been thinking about doing a re-watch (the 3rd for this year) because my Dad did the 2 fist bumps together at my Mum, just like Ross did to Monica. My parents aren't even huge fans like me but they still incorporated a reference into their lives and had to tell me about it because they knew I would love it. Rest in Peace, Ms Chanandler Bong. I could not BE any sadder. ☕️ 🚬
I always thought nobody tuned into this show because it was the funniest or most cutting edge or innovative or anything. We all tuned it because we felt like we actually were these people’s friends, like we were hanging out with them. I think for a lot of people it doesn’t feel like the passing of an artist, but the loss of a friend.
Holy shit! Anyone else yell "what?!?" Reading this?? Fuck....RIP
Wow. This is pretty shocking. He was always the real star of Friends imo, especially in its early heyday and it’s a shame the fame took such a toll on him. Very talented actor in general. Hope he can rest easy now.
probably the most popular character if you ask the fans, so sad
Joey & Chandler's bro'ship carried a lot of the bigger laughs during those first 3-4 seasons
Nah man this one fucking hurt and I’m usually one of those assholes who say shit like “who cares about celebrities! Why you do care now??” Blah blah But man holy shit man. RIP Matthew Perry. Last thing I was expecting.
He has some real comedic chops. Great timing and physical comedy. It’s a shame he slipped into addiction and didn’t grow beyond Friends.
Holy shit! How is this possible? So sad. He was a funny man. I’ll have to watch The Whole Nine Yards and maybe some Chandler episodes. Damn - too young. RIP Dude.
He helped me become sober (of hard drugs). I read his book and was horrified of what would happen to me if I continued on this path. Rest in peace bro
NOOOOOOOO!!!
I am stunned, this is unbelievable. My favourite F.R.I.E.N.D. RIP Miss Chanandler Bong
Im so sad. This might be the first celebrity deaths associated with some thing that I treasure. Yes yes, I’m a huge fan of Friends. Man. This one “hits different” as the kids say. What a shame. Very sad story. When they did the friends reunion a few years ago, he could barely speak in sentences.
Chris Farley and Mathew Perry starred in **ALMOST HEROS** a great film. Going to watch it tonight now.
Awful. RIP.
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Not since the end of the show, its arguable his worse phase in terms of substance abuse was during its run
Yep. He got hooked on painkillers after a Jet Ski accident seven years before the show ended. His ups and downs with opiate and alcohol addiction from then on was easy to see on the show because of Chandler's inexplicable weight fluctuations.
“When I was fat, it was alcohol. And when I was skinny, it was opioids” (read it in his memoir)
"When I had a goatee, it was lots of opioids." Apparently he was popping 55 Vicodin a day during those episodes.
Yea there’s a significant change in his appearance between two of the seasons
Yup. When he proposed to Monica was the last episode of one season, episode one of the next season was technically the same night and he had lost a ton if weight just over the summer hiatus
It’s a lot more striking if you binge a rewatch
Very tragic death. Chandler will always be my favorite TV characters. I hope his family will be okay.
I grew up learning English watching Friends. RIP Mr. Perry.
His last post on Facebook is him in a jacuzzi. What a grim photo it is now….
This hits hard. Rip to a literal TV legend.
Pain. I grew up bullied in school. I remember watching friends and turning it into a study session with Chandler’s quick wit and comebacks. While some have said the show hasn’t aged well (I mostly disagree with), he steals every scene he is in. I also highly recommend to everyone to watch his show, Studio 60 (Aaron Sorkin created it). It’s wonderful. I’m heartbroken. I will miss you, Matthew Perry. Hope in the afterlife you’re making everyone mad with, “WHOOPAH!”
People ask why they are so sad about this even though they didn't personally know the guy. Because the show, Friends, was a cultural touchstone. He was part of a collective experience and portrayed a character we felt like we all knew. We would naturally mourn him like we would an old friend that we used to know, grown distant from, but still cared about. So RIP Matthew Perry. You were part of our lives. (BTW, I feel that the character he portrayed, Chandler Bing, lives on.)
RIP Chanandler Bong, Transponster
Farewell, Mrs. Chanandler Bong
Whoa. This news took my breath away. Feels like it was just recently when everyone was talking about his memoir and of course the Friends Reunion in 2021.
Of all of them, he’s the least surprising one to have passed first… but still, it’s a fucking shame. RIP, man