'FRIENDS' STAR MATTHEW PERRY DEAD AT 54 ... After Apparent Drowning

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'FRIENDS' STAR MATTHEW PERRY DEAD AT 54 ...After Apparent Drowning

Wow..

https://www.tmz.com/2023/10/28/friends- ... -drowning/

[Darrien]

That is sad, dude was definitely my favorite on the show but I know he battled a lot of demons. RIP.

[Zabooka]

Whoa. I knew he had issues but never saw this coming.

[TimmyP]

Guessing the tox screen isn't going to come back clean.....

[Zabooka]

"It's sad, but Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Ross and Joey weren't really 'Friends' with Chandler" said Phil Lewis.

[pieceofme]

"It's sad, but Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Ross and Joey weren't really 'Friends' with Chandler" said Phil Lewis.

I knew he had issues but still kind of shocked.

[MetalSludgeCEO]

Guessing the tox screen isn't going to come back clean.....

Right...

I would like to think, that drowning in your hot tub doesn't come easily...

Kind of a "Whitney Houston" situation...? Perhaps...

Some Rx, fell asleep, and slipped under the water.

$tEvil

[BernieTaupson]

Good reminder that getting paid two million bucks an episode doesn’t bring you happiness. Fucking nuts.

And meanwhile Charlie “winning!” Sheen is still with us!

[Mojo]

Whoa. I knew he had issues but never saw this coming.

So no one told you life was gonna be this way?

[St_Augustines_Pears]

He's been permanently unfriended.

[St_Augustines_Pears]

Whoa. I knew he had issues but never saw this coming.

So no one told you life was gonna be this way?

This wasn't his day, his week, his month, or even his year.

[St_Augustines_Pears]

Could he BE any more non-responsive?

[cowpins]

He was found at 4pm. One just doesn't fall asleep in a hot tub at 4pm, unless, well. He posted a pic of himself in his hot tub last week (the hot tub was the size of a small pool) and he was just chilling with headphones on. Very eerie. I am not jumping to conclusions, ok, maybe I am, but substance abuse / addiction sucks and hate this for his family/friends.

[BernieTaupson]

[BernieTaupson]

The first time Matthew Perry went through detox, he was already as famous as a Beatle, thanks to his role as Chandler Bing on the culture-shifting 1990s sitcom Friends.

He was also an addict, tormented by a long list of demons that eventually included Vicodin (55 pills a day, at his low point), alcohol, cocaine, Xanax and Suboxone.

He went on to detox 65 more times, he estimates, spending millions of dollars and half of his ruined life in treatment facilities.

Friends lasted 10 seasons, and Perry was spiralling for most of them, according to his new memoir, the grimly funny, mostly unvarnished and frequently proctological Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing.

His struggles played out in front of millions of viewers every week. He writes: "You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season – when I'm carrying weight, it's alcohol; when I'm skinny, it's pills. When I have a goatee, it's lots of pills."

The book arrives at a strange time, as our understanding of addiction grows and our tolerance for the problems of rich white men shrinks.

Matthew Perry shares detailed accounts of his addiction struggle in a new memoir.
It's both a conventional memoir and an account of the dire events of 2018, when Perry's colon exploded, a presumed side effect of his opiate use. He fell into a coma; his family was told he had a 2% chance of survival.

He spent five months in the hospital, and nine months with a colostomy bag and endured countless surgeries, a harrowing ordeal recounted in minute detail. By page 11, readers will become intimately familiar with the contents of Perry's gastrointestinal tract.

In alternating chapters, the 53-year-old recalls his childhood in Canada as the son of a beauty queen and an American folk singer-turned-actor. His parents were young, ridiculously attractive and outmatched.

At 2 months old, Perry was given barbiturates to stop him from crying. At age 5, he was sent as an unaccompanied minor to visit his father, who had left when Perry was 9 months old. "Not having a parent on that flight is one of the many things that led to a lifelong feeling of abandonment," Perry writes.

He was a bottomless hole of neediness, desperate for his mother's approval. He vied for her attention against rivals that included his stepfather, local newscaster-turned-Dateline journalist Keith Morrison, and glamorous Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, for whom she worked long hours as a press secretary. (In grade school, Perry writes, he beat up Trudeau's son, future prime minister Justin Trudeau, in retaliation.)

[cowpins]

Just remembered seeing him existing a flight at LAX once. He was the first one off the plane and darted through the concourse. Of course he could have been running late, however, just thinking of always being on the run w/ fans wanting autographs, photos being taken of you, etc...when all that you want is to be left the fuck alone in the fight against addiction sucks. Dude doesn't have to run any more.

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Just remembered seeing him existing a flight at LAX once. He was the first one off the plane and darted through the concourse. Of course he could have been running late, however, just thinking of always being on the run w/ fans wanting autographs, photos being taken of you, etc...when all that you want is to be left the fuck alone in the fight against addiction sucks. Dude doesn't have to run any more.

On his way to the bar.

[cowpins]

Just remembered seeing him existing a flight at LAX once. He was the first one off the plane and darted through the concourse. Of course he could have been running late, however, just thinking of always being on the run w/ fans wanting autographs, photos being taken of you, etc...when all that you want is to be left the fuck alone in the fight against addiction sucks. Dude doesn't have to run any more.

On his way to the bar.

Nah...Would have had drinks on the plane with a roadie in a cup always available. I know.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Right, probably late meeting his dealer.

[LAglamrocker]

Guess Chandler could not swim in Friends fountain

[Bono Nettencourt]

CoD - "deferred"

[Ltfrnkdrebn]

And the Vax gets another one....

[BernieTaupson]

Yeah it was the vax, not the fact that he had a 2% chance of dying five years ago and went to rehab 62 times, you fucking mouthbreather.

[cowpins]

2% chance of survival = 98% chance of dying.

[alecjonsludge]

One of the cast members from Friends died !

Schwimmer ?

Well, he drowned, so I guess not.

[ckgent]

Not Phoebe either.... Lisa KudRow

[BernieTaupson]

2% chance of survival = 98% chance of dying.

Yeah I wrote it quickly because I was pissed at that guy talking shit.

[Mojo]

[Ltfrnkdrebn]

Yeah it was the vax, not the fact that he had a 2% chance of dying five years ago and went to rehab 62 times, you fucking mouthbreather.

Ya keep telling yourself that, all these celebrities and sports figures that were forced to get vaxed to work are just dropping dead. Nothing to see here.... you dope.

[Mojo]

Ya keep telling yourself that, all these celebrities and sports figures that were forced to get vaxed to work are just dropping dead. Nothing to see here.... you dope.

As opposed to the literal billions of people who got the (multiple) vaccines who are just fine?

How sad that it only targets celebrities and them kneelers.