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Apparently he had just played a couple of hours of pickleball and was using the jacuzzi to wind down. He sent his assistant to the store to pick up some items and when he got back found he had drowned...sounds like very likely cardiac arrest.
Another tragic pickleball casualty. Could this sport *hurt* any more people!
Sorry, couldn't resist another Chandler imitation. Actually, I love PB, but I know so many people who've hurt themselves playing, including myself (torn miniscus). But nothing feels better after PB than a soak in the hot tub.
I was really shocked to hear the news. I always liked seeing him when he was on interview shows after Friends. He was very open about his struggles.
In his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” Perry recounted his lifelong struggle with addiction to alcohol and opioids. He wrote that he had his first drink at 14, but didn’t recognize the signs of alcoholism until 21. Since then, he estimated, he’d spent more than $7 million on efforts to get sober, including multiple stints in rehab. His substance abuse also led to a number of serious health issues, including a five-month hospitalization in 2018 following a colon rupture that left him, he wrote, with a 2% chance to live through the night.
And it was fueled, he acknowledged during a “Friends” reunion special in 2021, by the pressure to land the joke in front of a live studio audience night after night.
“Nobody wanted to be famous more than me,” Perry told The Times in April, discussing “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” at the Festival of Books. “I was convinced it was the answer. I was 25, it was the second year of ‘Friends,’ and eight months into it, I realized the American dream is not making me happy, not filling the holes in my life. I couldn’t get enough attention. … Fame does not do what you think it’s going to do. It was all a trick.”
Well, in respect, one might want to call him by his real name for two main reasons.
First of all, some of us have no clue who this Chandler is.
Secondly and more importantly, he was an actor.....and Chandler was just a role he played. He was not Chandler but Perry. At the end of the day, the make up comes off. EDIT: I have been corrected that "Chandler" was the first and not the last name and hence, respectfully, it would be Matthew and not Perry....but as said, which goes to show, of having no clue about "Chandler".
Ray Walston said how it really irked him when he was on vacation overseas and some guy yelled out ot the crowd, "Hey, Uncle Martin!" for that was not who he was.
If you want to respect the man, refer to him by who he was in real life.
Then why are you in here?
Let me grieve in peace, Chandler was there for me!!!
TBF - he did do some good advocacy work in relation to drug addiction and even opened a drug rehab facility known as Perry House.
That's good and bad at the sametime. It's good he wants to help addicts so they don't decend into oblivion the way he did. But in the addicts will not stop or change until they really really want to. Not for a court, family, friend, spouse. The addict themselves have to want change. Too many don't. The daily high is their desire in life.
It's bad because that's money and resources that could've gone elsewhere.It's bad because even though trying to help addicts he is also trying to help some of the most selfish narcissistic people on the planet. Their high/gratification is their life.
Don't want to see people go like that but if he's doing enough opioids that his colon exploded that's bad. Constipation is known issue with them.
We were an Army family and everytime we moved duty stationed (after 1996) and knew that the wait for cable (and later wifi)was around a week or more so we had videos (first VHS and later DVDs) playing.
"Friends" was always played and we still laugh at the episodes. Thanksgiving always includes "Friends" and this year the floating heads Thanksgiving episode will hit rather sadly
Rest in peace Matthew and thanks for the laughter - it means a lot to me.
We were just talking about him and I was saying that obviously he knew how popular his character and the whole show in general was, but I wonder if he knew how much it actually means to people. He made people feel good. We feel like we actually knew Chandler. So many times I feel at a loss for words when someone dies, it's just too hard to express how you feel about them, but this one just felt so personal somehow. Anyway...
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