Matthew Perry, 54, was found dead in his hot tub today, according to Variety.
Perry was best known for Friends, but he was so much better than that show. He was a comedic genius and was smarter than the scripts that were given him.
But like his character on Growing Pains, he was plagued by the bottle and drugs. He struggled with it for years, and it took its toll on him. I hope he is finding the peace in heaven he didn’t get here on Earth.
And tonight, I won’t cry over his death. I will remember the good times I had watching him in Boys Will Be Boys, Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards and its sequel, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, 17 Again, Mr. Sunshine, and The Odd Couple, to name a few.
Although, I will be blubbering if I watch that Growing Pains episode.
So, I will focus on his funnier works because I want to remember him with a smile. He would make me laugh. I wish people could have seen how funny he was as I did at press events. He had a way about him that we didn’t get to see him as when he had a script in his hand.
Let’s remember him with laughs. This way, he could know that we knew he was funny.
Matthew Perry has a tell-all coming out, and he is telling all in Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. He talks about his drug use, getting clean, and his torrid affairs with legendary actresses like Julia Roberts.
However, one of them was an affair because the actress was married at the time that they got together for one night.
Perry and Valerie Bertinelli starred in the failed sitcom Sydney, and the actor wanted to be more than friends with his co-star, who was married to Eddie Van Halen at the time.
According to an excerpt that Page Six got their hands on, Perry fantasized about her leaving her husband for him.
Then one night, he was at the Van Halens, and the guitarist drank too much, so he passed out. Perry decided to seize the night, and the two had a makeout session while her husband lay passed out 10 feet away from them.
That was their one and only encounter, and the show was cancelled four weeks after that fateful night.
Is this story true? Bertinelli posted a video on TikTok and wrote, “Anyone misbehave in their 20’s and 30’s. Are you mortified?” The actress seems embarrassed by what happened that night.
I say, “It happens. We all misbehave.” Even when we get older. I know I am still a bad girl! It is human nature to be bad because it feels so good.
The important thing is that we learn from our mistakes.
Out of all of the Friends, the only one whose memoir I want to read is Matthew Perry’s. And on November 1st, we are going to get to do just that. The actor revealed today that he wrote an autobiography called Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.
Why now? “So much has been written about me in the past. I thought it was time people heard from me. The highs were high, the lows were low. But I have lived to tell the tale, even though at times it looked like I wouldn’t. And it’s all in here,” the actor wrote. “I apologize it’s not a pop up book.”
Pop up book or not, it is going to be an intriguing read. I am sure it is going to be hard to put down once you pick it up.
In case you didn’t know, Harry Connick Jr is married to model Jill Goodacre. What you do know about her is that she got trapped in an ATM vestibule with Chandler Bing during a blackout on Friends.
The other day when the singer and his wife were getting money from an ATM, a lightbulb went on his head. That bulb told him to live out a fantasy and recreate that scene with her.
How did she react? She needs to move to California so that she can get half.
Seriously though, how funny was that? I am sure he is not the first person who has wanted to do that with her. And he won’t be last.
If you want to watch that scene, you know, the one where Chandler got stuck with Goodacre in ATM vestibule, then click here!
Before Matthew Perry was taken by paramedics to the hospital on Growing Pains, he learned what a paramedic was on 240-Robert. How cute was the 9-year-old in that 1979 episode with his dad.
