She is inconsolable. The host of It starts todayFaustine Bollaert reacted with fear to the sudden disappearance of Matthew Perrythe hero of the series Friends which marked an entire generation. From 1994 to 2004, the actor played the iconic Chandler, who was among the favorite people of fans of the short-com… among whom was Maxime Chattam’s partner. On X as on Instagram, the 44-year-old host reacted: “I am very sad this morning. I am even surprised by this sadness. His book moved me a lot. He was a brilliant actor, a broken person. More than ten years laughing with him. Like a part of my youth that flies away with him. At 54 years old. Goodbye Chandler and thank you for everything”.
Asked to react to the death of Matthew Perry, the journalist Isabelle Morini-Boscwhich usually occurs on C8 and in Do not touch My TVwas on BFMTV this Sunday, October 29, 2023 and also delivered a poignant testimony, revealing that she was not surprised when reading the report of the actor’s death a few hours earlier: “From the age of 14, he felt like an alcoholic. Honestly, when I heard the news this morning, I was on the RER, at first I was obviously sad like everyone else because I am of the generation Friendsand then, it didn’t surprise me at all because I was literally captivated by the book he wrote last year with Michel Laffont, where he says very clearly: I started dying as soon as I was born, that is to say, he was never truly happy in himself; he had anxiety attacks all the time“ remembered the media professional.
“I should have been dead a long time ago.”
These memoirs, which Isabelle Morini-Bosc and Faustine Bollaert co-wrote, were published in November 2022 and were called Friends, my loves and this terrible thing. In this open-hearted autobiography, the actor, weakened by his faults, took responsibility for them and reflected on them at length, evoking his relationship with alcohol and opiates, which had punctuated his daily life for almost forty years: “I should be dead a long time ago. I’ve been mostly sober since 2001, except for sixty or seventy small relapses.” explained the one who, in 2019, almost died after his colon burstwhich led him to a two-week coma and a convalescence of several months…
— Faustine Bollaert (@FaustineFB) October 29, 2023