Matthew Perry is DEAD TO ME, Part 3: Jacuzzi Electric Boogaloo

I couldn't get to Part 2 fast enough to post the new link before it closed ( thanks, r600 over there).

Yes, r2. i couldn't agree more.

He had no dog, don't know how the story that Lisa Kudrow was taking his dog started

I think he died by suicide.

Wait, he did have a dog but Lisa Kudrow is not taking it.

Def OD.

His IG posts prior to his death suggested this.

I only saw the one about the hot tub. Which other Instagram posts are you talking about?

R8 - in the last few weeks of his life, he posted a stream of enigmatic posts referencing Batman. He had barely posted on Instagram all year until then. It does seem that he had recently relapsed.

i don't think he committed suicide. and i'm not really sure he relapsed either.

he was obsessed with Batman. and i really think that's the extent of his Batman posts, which were also around Halloween-time. He was putting on that persona maybe as a way and part of Halloween.

I believe he had a heart attack. his pickleball partner said he'd been complaining of being tired for the week prior to his death, and he played only an hour of p-ball that day as opposed to his usual two hours.

I really think his body had been through so much in his lifetime that his ticker was weakened. sitting in the hot tub was probably the thing that did it. if he'd relapsed, there was no reason for him to be in the hot tub, deriving pleasure of the warm, bubbling water. His opiates would have given him that warm feeling without him needed to get into the tub. Opiates do exactly what they need to with no other inputs needed.

"Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel was played at his funeral! How maudlin and God-less. Had he accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior?!

Meanness in his funeral scripture, or something?

Matthew Perry's Friends co-stars did not attend the second half of the actor's funeral services, according to an insider.

Jennifer Aniston, 54; Lisa Kudrow, 60; Courteney Cox, 59; and David Schwimmer, 57, arrived as a quartet - all dressed in black suits and somber as they prepared to say their last goodbyes to Perry, 54, at Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles.

They were joined outside the church after the simple hour-long ceremony by Matt LeBlanc, 56, and were pictured in conversation with other well wishers.

But an insider told DailyMail.com that the cast did not attend the second half of their 'family-like' friend's funeral services.

The insider said: 'The Friends cast did not attend the second half of the services which took place further up from the church at The Courts of Remembrance which is made up of several open air courtyards.

'It’s a special, more secluded area. More private. That part was only attended by Matthew’s family and closest friends. Less than 20 people.

'There were about another 20 at the first part of the services. It was very intimate. 'After the services, friends left while his family and few others took a car up to the area where the coffin was taken and then carried into The Courts of Remembrance.'

Looking forward to hearing why his Friends “family” was SHUNNED at his final farewell

He didn't relapse.

He was never sober.

It's not uncommon for a funeral to have a second phase, private graveside, for the family, after the general memorial service, especially for public figures.

Why do you say that, R15?

Because, by all appearances, it’s true?

The vaccine strikes again!

You don't think he was sober and then relapsed?

What did he claim in his book?

r16 we did that for our dad. A big public funeral and luncheon afterwards. Then after that mainly family went to the graveside for a service.

I also thought he wasn't sober in some of his recent interviews.

You had lunch?

Jennifer A is struggling.

"It's a second massive loss in less than a year, with the one-year anniversary of her dad's death just around the corner. She still hasn't fully regained her footing from that, and now this has just completely knocked her off her feet."

Oh Jen. It was just a matter of time before this happened. You can't be that surprised.

I don't see the issue here. In the end, they were co-workers, and it could have been seen as inappropriate.

Is this thread dead to us?

Did Maggie Wheeler surprise everyone midway through the service with an earsplitting “OH…MY…GOD!!!”

Would’ve sent social media into more of a tizzy than it already is.

Well, this doesn't look like it's going to be a Julian Sands-level consta-thread.

It needs to be fed, and really, until we get more information, much of what there is to be said has been said at this point.

I'm sure everyone will feel free to update if new tidbits come in.

Getting to Part 3 is a good run, R26.

Remember, we also had a Matthew Perry is Dead to me that didn't take off as a part 1, but got about half filled after the other Part 1 closed.

The truth behind Mattman

He’s just not as beloved as Julian Sands was. RIP Julian

Exactly —Julian was much more interesting—and he wasn’t a lifelong junkie.

[Quote]Jennifer A is struggling. "She still hasn't fully regained her footing from that, and now this has just completely knocked her off her feet."

Omg, Jen's in a wheelchair??

Can someone please summarize what's in r31's post? I can't get the app to download.

It's depressing r35

Did Matt LeBlanc have to get a special suit made by Abdul the Tent Maker?

In truth, Perry was obsessed with Batman. In 2017, he spent $20  million on 10,000-square-foot "mansion in the sky" replete with a "bat cave" to store his Caped Crusader memorabilia. It was the biggest condo sale of that year. Perry bought it, he has said, in part to live out his Bruce Wayne fantasies. (Rihanna purchased the property in April.) The final chapter of his 2022 addiction memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, is titled "Batman." And Mattman - or Matman, as Perry spells it in the memoir - was also part of that fantasy. He was convinced it was going to be his comeback vehicle.

In November 2020, on the set of Don't Look Up, he approached Adam McKay - who'd cast Perry in a small part as a smarmy cable news anchor in the film about an asteroid headed toward Earth - about producing the project.

For Perry, who only two years earlier had narrowly escaped death after his colon burst from prolonged opioid abuse, the opportunity to appear in a prestige movie satire alongside Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Jonah Hill was the opportunity of a lifetime.

Casting director Francine Maisler first suggested Perry to McKay. "I was like, ‘Man, I haven't seen him in anything in a little while,' " says McKay, 55. "I knew he had some health issues. And so I met with him and he was super cool. Francine and I had talked about the fact that, yeah, he's famous for the Friends character, but he had done lots of movies and other shows, and he was always good in everything he did. He always popped in this really specific way.

"So I met with him and he was great. He described how he had had some sort of major surgery involving his lower intestine and almost had died, and it was really major stuff, but you could tell he had recovered. He was back, and I was super excited to do the movie with him," McKay recalls.

But when Perry showed up to set, there were obvious signs that he was not well. "His energy was low," says McKay. "He looked not healthy. It was just the kind of thing where you're like, ‘Are you all right?' It was during COVID and it was before the vaccine, so it was already a very dicey shoot. I remember being a little worried - like, ‘Hey, did you take the COVID test?' He was like, ‘Oh yeah, I'm clean.'"

McKay had hoped the role in Don't Look Up might set Perry back on track: "We selfishly wanted him in the movie - he's very talented - but we were also hoping that doing the movie could be a little toehold to kind of get some degree of working rhythm back to hopefully remind him how good he was."

At some point between takes, Perry approached McKay with his Mattman idea. The pitch went something like this: "It's about this guy," Perry said. "You'd recognize him. His name is Matt and he's very famous and about 50 years old. His life is a little bit of a mess. He's lost. Out of the blue a distant relative dies and leaves him $2 billion - and he uses to become a superhero."

McKay was fascinated by the pitch - not because he wanted to make Mattman, but because it offered a window into Perry's mind. "Any movie idea is kind of like someone telling you their dream," he explains. "And there's kind of obviously a meaning behind it. And when I heard that idea, I was like, ‘Oh, that's interesting that that's the idea that he wants to do.'"

McKay wondered if Perry's fixation on super powers was somehow an appeal to his own higher power. Perry may have succumbed to his own mortality. But, like Batman, Perry had devoted much of his life and his own millions to helping others. He wanted fellow addicts to find sobriety. And that work will continue posthumously with the newly announced Matthew Perry Foundation.

Perry pictured himself playing the lead, but was flexible in terms of whether it should be a movie or a series. McKay countered with his own idea - something less high-concept but no less autobiographical.

"My idea was just to do a show about being this incredibly popular, well-known TV guy who's dealing with addiction," McKay says. "Because the world has changed. You could actually do that show now. Ten years ago, people would have said you're crazy. But now people can be more upfront about their mental health issues, their addiction issues, and it's kind of wonderful." "Why don't we just do a show that's a fictional version of what you've struggled with," he pressed on with his pitch to Perry. "The idea that everywhere you go, people yell your catchphrases a little bit of your past, the addiction, what it's like, because everyone views you through this lens of this cheery, bright, multicolored show. And then, meanwhile, you're a human being who's dealing with real addiction, real pain. It could be an incredible show. It could be really funny. It could really affect people's lives."

But Perry had no interest in that show. "And it's not the kind of idea you push on someone," McKay says. "So I was like, ‘OK.'"

As for Don't Look Up, Perry finished one scene in Boston before flying via private jet to a treatment facility in Switzerland, where he faked pain symptoms in order to convince doctors there to prescribe him 1,800 milligrams of OxyContin per day. McKay ultimately cut Perry's character from the film, "which was really too bad.

"I actually didn't know that Switzerland was rehab," says McKay. "I thought it was like a health cleanse or something. Call me naive."

Thank you for cutting and pasting, r38.

[QUOTE]McKay wondered if Perry's fixation on super powers was somehow an appeal to his own higher power.

This is interesting. Atheists and agnostics who go into AA are encouraged to pick something, someone that represents a "higher power" instead of God. Another Magnificent Obsession.

I didn't read his book; was he an atheist or agnostic?

I'm an ignorant on that subject.

Perry sounds deranged in that anecdote about his superhero obsession.

I'm thinking it was an electrician magician

I'm going to say the cause of death will be a popped artery aneurysm style like John Ritter. So, weakness from the abusive lifestyle but ultimately sort of natural death. Cardiovascular.

Fat Monica would not be allowed today!

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Hmmm. The Daily Fail is trying to say something here…

Sober coach.

He was using, to the end.

Wait, that assistant is a man?

Kenny was no Matthew Manasse.

Straight guys like other "dudes" their own age to be assistants. I forgot who but one I was reading about used his assistant to basically screen out or in woman before he would hit on them. The wing man approach. A female assistant would not do that and there would be endless lawsuits about how SHE was forced to be a sort of pimp or sex trafficking. Of course only filed after she was let go.

That thing wasn’t gonna hit on anything other than a brick wall—be serious.

I never said he was successful at it. But I am sure he was still horny for some tail even if he never got it. I am sure with his fame and money there were still plenty of skanks who would put up with him for the cash.

Nope. $ was for pills not pussy

In Hollywood, you can get both at the same time.

death certificate LEAKED online!

The document lists Perry's stepfather, Keith Morrison, as the "informant" for his death. This only indicates that Morrison provided the necessary information for the completion of the death certificate.

Even though a copy of the death certificate has turned up online, the exact cause of his death has not yet been determined. Previous reports indicated that Perry was pending a comprehensive toxicology report which will likely take a month to complete.

So was Perry attracted to women or not?

He was creeping on youngsters on Reya or whatever. Girls

Matthew Perry reflected on Julia Roberts romance, ‘flirty faxes’ before death: ‘I was not enough’

Faxes? Old!!!!!

His ex girlfriend (Blake Edwards' grandaughter) said the "Mattman" thing was a sign he was not sober. Also when he was not sober he had a thing for water. I didn't think he sounded sober in some of the book interviews.

Link to article

Jennifer Aniston's final call to Matthew Perry

She sounds like she's trying to cash in.

If you read the whole article:

SHE feels bad that SHE didn't get to say goodbye.

SHE never did drugs with him.

SHE would go home and pray he wouldn't die.

What a bunch of shit and what a shit person for giving this interview.

That's how we get the gossip is from people like her

Jennifer Aniston is a PR goldmine. People are obsessed with her and can’t stop reading and talking about her.

I don't think she needs to "cash in" with this stuff.

Kayti Edwards met Matthew at AA yet she states "I was around when he was getting high, although I was not getting high with him." Right.

This aged well.

[quote]She sounds like she's trying to cash in.

[quote]If you read the whole article:

[quote]SHE feels bad that SHE didn't get to say goodbye.

[quote]SHE never did drugs with him.

[quote]SHE would go home and pray he wouldn't die.

[quote]What a bunch of shit and what a shit person for giving this interview.

Well, they were interviewing her, what was she supposed to say?

It didn't say goodbye?

It never did drugs with him?

It went home and prayed for him?

Any New Yorkers going to this?

Matthew Perry will be "honoured" at the real-life Central Perk coffeehouse.

On Tuesday (14.11.23) Central Perk Coffeehouse will distribute the Chandler Bing 'Can I Interest You in a Sarcastic Comment' sleeve exclusively for the entire day, in honor of the life and enduring legacy of Matthew Perry."

While the shop is not trying to replicate the exact set seen on the famous New York-based show, bosses have explained that it is a re-imagining of what the hangout venue might look like if the series - which ran from 1994 until 2004 - was still in production in the present day.

Glen Coben, founder and principal designer of Glen and Co Architecture, said: "It's not about creating a replica of it, it's really looking at what it would look like today. It’s a modern interpretation of what a coffee shop or Central Perk would look like in 2024."

this is amazing r73, i’m blown away by the relevance Friends still seems to exert over the culture, i’m baffled by it!

Anybody who would go to that event at r73 should be ashamed of themselves

R73 Nothing like a death to get the cash-ins going!

Matt Le Blanc is the first of the main Friends cast members to give an individual tribute:

[quote] Matthew

[quote] It is with a heavy heart I say goodbye. The times we had together are honestly among the favorite times of my life.

[quote] It was an honor to share the stage with you and to call you my friend. I will always smile when I think of you and I’ll never forget you. Never.

[quote] Spread your wings and fly brother you’re finally free. Much love.

[quote] And I guess you’re keeping the 20 bucks you owe me.

That's nice, R77. Thanks for sharing that.

It's a very sweet tribute and kind from someone who was undoubtedly troubled by his friend's self-destructive behavior, but loved him nonetheless. I know nothing about LeBlanc, but it almost sounds like a high school year book tribute, however heartfelt it may be.

Courtney Cox has posted on Instagram too. She also posted a video of an outtake that she describes.

courteneycoxofficial

I am so grateful for every moment I had with you Matty and I miss you every day.

When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share. For now here’s one of them.

To give a little backstory, Chandler and Monica were supposed to have a one night fling in London. But because of the audience’s reaction, it became the beginning of their love story. In this scene, before we started rolling, he whispered a funny line for me to say.

He often did things like that. He was funny and he was kind.

It’s nice they’ve started individual tributes. It can’t be easy to find words to describe what the six of them went through together.

I wonder if the five of them will make a joint TV appearance at some point?

It might be easier for the 5 of them to appear together now the “Friends reunion!!!!!” option is off the table

I was a fan of Friends but i haven't watched the reunion. is it worth it? i know, i've heard everyone say Perry was slurring his words, but he also said he'd had a lot of oral surgery then as well, and in fact, showed a mouthful of clearly fake teeth in subsequent photos.

Reunion show - worth watching or just like one of those mid-season, lazy, past show montages?

A modern representation of a storefront that never actually existed?!

That’s meta!

R83 Overall I found it enjoyable. The best moments were the six of them privately reminiscing in the apartment and cafe sets. Perry did seem a little lost without an audience to play to.

The James Corden interview segments were kind of forced, with lots of rushed cameos.

I’m guessing enough footage was cut to make an entirely new special.

R9 I completely agree with you about Matt’s enigmatic instagram posts.

I had a close friend die by Suicide and prior to his death he was posting very dark posts for a few months prior to his suicide. In fact, he posted some almost comparable to one of Matt’s posts of the moon and sky. Looking back now, I wish I would have been more observant. I believe he was thinking of the great beyond and was in a dark place. His posts did not make sense. I am more cognizant now and watch what people post. Sometimes we become so engrossed in our own lives we forget others are really struggling.

I saw advertised a new 60 minutes segment on his death. Did anyone see it? I will look online for a clip.

'Feels like I'm losing a son': Friends director reveals what made Matthew Perry 'extraordinary'

Jennifer Aniston's Instagram:

jenniferaniston

Oh boy this one has cut deep... Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before. We all experience loss at some point in our lives. Loss of life or loss of love. Being able to really SIT in this grief allows you to feel the moments of joy and gratitude for having loved someone that deep. And we loved him deeply. He was such a part of our DNA. We were always the 6 of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be. For Matty, he KNEW he loved to make people laugh. As he said himself, if he didn't hear the ‘laugh’ he thought he was going to die. His life literally depended on it. And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh. And laugh hard. In the last couple weeks, I’ve been pouring over our texts to one another. Laughing and crying then laughing again. I’ll keep them forever and ever. I found one text that he sent me out of nowhere one day. It says it all. (See the second slide…)

Matty, I love you so much and I know you are now completely at peace and out of any pain. I talk to you every day… sometimes I can almost hear you saying “could you BE any crazier?”

Rest little brother.

You always made my day…

Was he high when he chose to wear bangs in Three to Tango?

David Schwimmer

=====

Matty,

Thank you for ten incredible years of laughter and creativity.

I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery. You could take a straight line of dialogue and bend it to your will, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes.

And you had heart. Which you were generous with, and shared with us, so we could create a family out of six strangers.

This photo is from one of my favorite moments with you. Now it makes me smile and grieve at the same time.

I imagine you up there, somewhere, in the same white suit, hands in your pockets, looking around—

“Could there BE any more clouds?”

Jen is going to break Instagram AGAIN.

They obviously agreed to release their statements on the same day.

Lisa Kudrow:

lisakudrow

Shot the pilot, Friends Like Us, got picked up then immediately, we were at the NBC Upfronts. Then…

You suggested we play poker AND made it so much fun while we initially bonded. Thank you for that.

Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said, that my muscles ached, and tears poured down my face EVERY DAY.

Thank you for your open heart in a six way relationship that required compromise. And a lot of “talking.”

Thank you for showing up at work when you weren’t well and then, being completely brilliant.

Thank you for the best 10 years a person gets to have.

Thank you for trusting me.

Thank you for all I learned about GRACE and LOVE through knowing you.

Thank you for the time I got to have with you, Matthew

Mary!

I teared up a little reading those. It's rare that you share that much time, those experiences, your major life events, and yes, that much money with 5 other people you're not related to by blood. It's pretty astounding, if you think about it.

But to them and to each other, they ARE a very bonded family, beyond blood ties. I think those tributes were great. I wish them condolences on losing their friend and brother and hope that they are able to focus on their good memories (which it seems they are).

[Quote]Jen is going to break Instagram AGAIN.

There won't be a dry eye in the comments section.

Very nice tributes all around. And nicely timed; I’m glad nobody rushed to be the first one to comment.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they avoid televised interviews for the time being on any subject, as this topic is bound to come up first thing. I doubt they’re ready for that. When it does inevitably happen, the tears are going to flow on all sides.

Yes Jennifer was all tears at the reunion. Imagine how she is crying now.

Why hasn't the monkey who played Marcel commented?

Marcel didn't get any tributes when he died. He was the most talented actor of the bunch.

[quote]Yes Jennifer was all tears at the reunion.

My dry eyes are cured!

Just caught the Friends episode where Chandler gets drunk and sleeps with one of Joey's sisters. A lot of nascent lines though Perry is in his painfully thin pill period.

Looking back, his appearance fluctuations through the seasons should’ve tipped me off sooner to the severity of his addiction issues. I knew he had problems, just not how bad they truly were.

The season 3 thinness is sad to see, but season 6 is probably where he looked his worst. Much heavier and constantly sweating. He said season 9 was where he was completely sober and it showed; healthiest he’d looked in years.

Over 16 million liked Aniston’s post!

I guess he's just forgotten about now, until the autopsy results are in. Then everyone will say, "oh how sad," and life will roll on.

This attention is to sell you more FRIENDS crap and some bullshit special. Money money money$$$$$$

Matthew's death has been ruled an accident, caused by the acute effects of ketamine. Drowning was a contributing factor. Merry Christmas, everyone!

You beat me to it, R106.

So cute it was acute…just another form of drug abuse hidden as prescribed therapy. A loser with lousy doctors.

Yeah. He was undergoing ketamine-infusion therapy for depression.

But his last appointment was over a week before his death and ketamine has a short half life.

Very sorry for him. Sounds like he tried to help other addicts.

[quote]a close friend of the star who preferred not to be named said: 'He lied to everyone about being clean. He never was. It is very sad. You know, the biggest lie he told was probably to himself.' The source added: 'He could be quite a manipulative person when it came to his struggles with using, but it was such a struggle, such a battle, and he battled every day to the end.'

He was slurring in interviews for his book but nobody called him out for it.

No wonder he was so fucked up when his close friends are prepared to sell out his privacy to the tabloids.

STORY..Friend claims he was never sober..I also believe he was't sober over any long term stretch. Some people just cannot do it. He seemed like he was always just a few days from a bender--past or future. I know what I know.

WOOF he looked like shit in the picture above

R114 That's ANOTHER reason I don't think he was sober. He had that Addict "don't give a fuck how I look" vibe.

R112 it seems he didn’t have many or any close, real friends.

He looks like Steve Bannon in R113.