Sober, Matthew Perry “had not been this well in a long time”, according to the co-creators of the series Friendsstill in shock from the news of his death.
The public’s favorite actor was found lifeless in his jacuzzi on Saturday. Aged 54, the interpreter of Chandler in Friends had struggled for years with his addiction to drugs and alcohol.
According to the co-creators of the cult series, Perry was sober at the time of his death.
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There were many flowers outside Matthew Perry’s home in Pacific Palisades.
“He seemed to be doing well, better than I had seen him in a long time,” Marta Kauffman said on the set of the show. Today Wednesday morning.
“He was emotionally comfortable in his own skin. He looked good. He had stopped smoking,” continued the screenwriter and producer alongside her accomplice, David Crane.
Even though the producer knew of their friend’s difficult past, the news of his death came as a real shock.
“There was a party that was preparing for something like this,” Mr. Crane said. It’s still hard to believe it, because she was such a living person. »