Adele paid tribute to Matthew Perry during her Las Vegas show Saturday, hours after the death of the Friends star was revealed. While the singer never met the actor, Adele — like millions of Friends fans — felt a connection to the hit sitcom, and especially Perry’s character Chandler Bing, …
Read More »'Friends' Co-Creators Remember Matthew Perry: 'A Brilliant Talent'
The co-creators and longtime executive producers of Friends paid tribute to Matthew Perry following news of the actor’s death at the age of 54. “We are shocked and deeply, deeply saddened by our beloved friend Matthew’s passing,” Marta Kauffman, David Crane, and Kevin Bright said in a joint statement to …
Read More »Matthew Perry Promises to Remove Keanu Reeves Barbs From Future Copies of His Memoir
Matthew Perry has promised to remove the unprovoked swipes at Keanu Reeves from future printings of the Friends actor’s memoir. In Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry twice poked fun at Reeves when writing about the deaths of “talented” actors like Heath Ledger, Chris Farley and River Phoenix. …
Read More »Coming Clean: Matthew Perry's Diane Sawyer Interview Is Now Streaming Online
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Matthew Perry‘s interview with Diane Sawyer Friday night generated plenty of headlines, with the actor revealing the depths of his drug addiction that nearly cost him his life. …
Read More »Matthew Perry Made Out With Valerie Bertinelli Right Next to Eddie Van Halen (Who Was Passed Out at the Time)
Matthew Perry’s upcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, has already garnered a lot of pre-publication press for the harrowing tales Perry shares about his struggle with addiction and a near-death experience in 2018. But the book also boasts some juicy Hollywood anecdotes — like the time Perry …
Read More »Matthew Perry Pulled Out of 'Don't Look Up' After His Heart Stopped for 5 Minutes
Matthew Perry was set to make an appearance opposite Meryl Streep in Don’t Look Up but had to pull out of the film following a medical scare while at a treatment center in Switzerland amid his decades-long addiction battle. The actor’s heart stopped for five minutes, and doctors broke eight …
Read More »Matthew Perry Says He's Spent $9 Million and Over Half His Life Trying to Get Sober
Addiction comes at a cost in more ways than one. In a New York Times interview about his forthcoming memoir about his sobriety journey, Friends star Matthew Perry revealed the cost of having spent more than half of his life checking in and out of treatment centers and sober living …
Read More »Matthew Perry Nearly Died After His Colon Burst From Opioid Abuse: 'No One Survives That'
Back in 2018, Matthew Perry spent several months in a hospital, saying only at the time that he suffered a gastrointestinal perforation. Now, in a new interview with People ahead of the publication of his new memoir, the Friends star explains that during that hospital stay, he nearly died after …
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