Matthew Perry, Friends Star, Dead at 54

Tragic information out of Hollywood this night.

Matthew Perry, finest recognized for enjoying Chandler Bing on Mates, has died.

He was 54.

In keeping with TMZ, the beloved actor was discovered Saturday at an L.A.- space dwelling.

“We’re instructed he seems to have drowned,” the outlet says of the obvious explanation for demise.

“Our sources say first-responders rushed over on a name for cardiac arrest,” TMZ provides. 

“It is unclear the place precisely on the grounds this occurred.”

The supply added that Perry was present in a jacuzzi on the premises.

“We’re instructed there have been no medicine discovered on the scene.”

“We’re additionally instructed there is no such thing as a foul play concerned,” the outlet says.

Perry shot to fame for his portrayal of Chandler on the NBC comedy sequence Mates.

Premiering within the ’90s, the blockbuster sequence made stars out of him and co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, and Courteney Cox.

Perry had been vocal about his historical past of drug and alcohol abuse, opening up about his addictions in his 2022 memoir Mates, Lovers and the Large Horrible Factor.

“I wished to share once I was protected from going into the darkish facet of the whole lot once more,” he instructed PEOPLE a 12 months in the past whereas selling the e book.

“I needed to wait till I used to be fairly safely sober — and away from the energetic illness of alcoholism and habit — to jot down all of it down.

“And the principle factor was, I used to be fairly sure that it will assist individuals.”

The actor additionally make clear how he suffered from a gastrointestinal perforation and spent weeks preventing for his life after his colon burst from opioid overuse.

He stated that he spent two weeks in a coma and 5 months within the hospital.

“The medical doctors instructed my household that I had a 2 % probability to dwell,” he instructed the journal.

“I used to be placed on a factor known as an ECMO machine, which does all of the respiration on your coronary heart and your lungs.

“And that is known as a Hail Mary. Nobody survives that.”

Perry’s massive break on Mates got here at age 24, with him noting that his alcohol habit was simply starting.

“I might deal with it, type of. However by the point I used to be 34, I used to be actually entrenched in a number of bother,” Perry shared.

“However there have been years that I used to be sober throughout that point. Season 9 was the 12 months that I used to be sober the entire means via.

“And guess which season I bought nominated for finest actor? I used to be like, ‘That ought to inform me one thing.'”

He revealed in his memoir that he began ingesting at 14.

“Performing was one other one among my medicine,” he wrote.

“And it did not do the injury that alcohol was already beginning to do. Actually, it was getting more durable and more durable to get up after an evening of ingesting.”

Whereas Perry’s most iconic position is Chandler Bing, he additionally had memorable roles in fellow broadcast TV comedies Studio 60 on the Sundown Strip, The Odd Couple, Mr. Sunshine, and Go On.

Perry was additionally well-known on the large display screen with films Fools Rush In, Nearly Heroes, The Complete 9 Yards, 17 Once more, and The Ron Clark Story.

He was born Matthew Langford Perry on August 19, 1969, to oldsters John Bennett Perry and Suzanne Langford in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

At age 15, Perry moved from Ottawa to Los Angeles to interrupt into appearing and attended The Buckley College.

His first TV credit score was on an episode of 240-Robert in 1979.

We need to lengthen our ideas and prayers to Matthew Perry’s family and friends throughout this troublesome time.

Might he relaxation in peace.

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