He struggled with drug addiction his entire life. This Saturday, October 28, 2023, the American media have announced the death of actor Matthew Perrystar of the series Friends. Between 1994 and 2004, the American-Canadian actor played the character of Chandler in the series Friends. At the end of the series, he continued his career in many other series such as Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Mr.Sunshine, The Good Wife And The Good Fight. In the cinema, we could see him in My neighbor the killerand he also lent his voice to one of the antagonists of the animated film Fallout: New Vegas. For the moment, the exact circumstances of Matthew Perry’s death have not been defined, but the 54-year-old man was found unconscious in his jacuzzi ; the criminal trail seems a priori ruled out by investigators, reveal People and The magazine.
Matthew Perry’s life was complicated until the end, tarnished by drug addictions that he never really managed to cure. Born in 1969, Matthew Perry is the son of the American actor John Bennett Perry (1941) and the American journalist Suzanne Morrison, who was in the 1970s and 1980s the press secretary for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Eliott Trudeau, father. of actor Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Matthew Perry and Justin Trudeau were also childhood friends, since they were educated in the same primary school. Matthew Perry had four half-sisters and one half-brother, born from his second marriage to Canadian journalist Keith Morrison.
He left them all, one after the other
Of his love life, we will only know the complicated love story he experienced with actress Julia Roberts in the mid-1990s. The star couple only lasted a few months, but was widely publicized. The Hollywood actress will also surprise the latter during her relationship with Matthew Perry by participating in episode 13 of season 2 of Friends. Matthew Perry never had children, and never experienced any other great love story. In an interview with the American edition of GQ in October 2022 on the occasion of the publication of his memoirs, the American-Canadian actor revealed his unfulfilled secret ambitions: those of getting married and starting a family.
“You know, I’m not being dramatic when I say there are ten women on the planet that I would kill to be married to. Who I dated and broke up with. And now they’ve all moved on thing, they are married and have children” explained the actor, who also mentioned the reasons which pushed him to quickly put an end to all his sentimental affairs: “I’m breaking up with them because I’m deathly afraid that they’ll find out that I’m not good enough, that I don’t matter, and that I’m too starving for affection. I’m afraid they will break up with me, that it will destroy me, that I will have to take drugs and that it will kill me“.
Drugs, all the way
Addictions, Matthew Perry will never get rid of them. In 2019, the actor had come close to death following a gastrointestinal perforation caused by overconsumption of drugs. A drug addict since adolescence, he had to mourn his dreams of being a professional tennis player due to this addiction. However, he had made a promising start by ranking 3rd in doubles at the national level, and 17th in singles, but the demons got the better of this vocation. As revealed The Parisian this Sunday October 29, 2023, the actor will have tried 65 times to weanbut will never really achieve it…