According to entertainment media TMZ, the 54-year-old actor died of drowning: he was found in a jacuzzi in a house in the Los Angeles area. According to sources from the aforementioned media, no hallucinogenic substances were found at the scene and emergency services responded to an alarm call for cardiac arrest.

The protagonist of the hit 90s series, Friends, He became visible through his role as Chandler in this production, which ran for 10 seasons and became the main platform for its six actors. Despite the great reception of the series, which also stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Perry, he had to deal with a heavy addiction to hydrocone (vicodin) and a few others substances, which he has sabotaged numerous times. projects he wanted to undertake. Despite this, he remained active in some television and film productions until 2017.

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“God, do with me what you want. But please make me famous,” Matthew Perry begged on his knees three weeks before signing with Friends. God kept his end of the bargain, but, as the actor sarcastically reminds Chandlerian In Friends, lovers and this terrible thing (Editorial Contraluz), “sometimes he could be merciful, but other times he had no problem with his son being nailed to a fucking cross”, reported the Cinemanía portal, about the revealed crisis by the actor in his biography published in 2012.

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In 1997, and during the recordings of Friends, The actor followed a 28-day program to overcome his addiction to hydrocone (vicodin). In 2000 he suffered from pancreatitis and in 2001 he returned to rehab for addiction to hydrocone, methadone, amphetamines and alcohol. In 2018, he underwent surgery for a gastrointestinal perforation.

The actor was born in the state of Massachusetts, but raised in Ottawa, Ontario. Her parents divorced before she was a year old, and her mother served as press secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Before he started acting, he was a tennis fan, but during high school he participated in the production The Life and Death of Sneaky Fitch. At the age of 15, he went to live with his father and, a year later, he did his first casting which landed him a role in the film. A night in the life of Jimmy Reardon.

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After his participation in Friendswas invited to participate in programs such as Boys Will Be Boys, Silver Spoons, Sydney, Beverly Hills, 90210, Home Free, Ally McBeal, among many others.

He also played roles in comedy films such as The whole nine meters, three for the tango, the kid, still 17 years old, enter, among others.

The actor, who has repeatedly claimed he was frustrated at not being able to maintain a stable relationship, dated Yasmine Bleeth for a time in 1995. Actress Julia Roberts was also his partner between 1995 and 1996 Years later, actress Lizzy Caplan was confirmed as his partner from 2006 to 2012. The actor ended up engaged to Molly Hurwitz in November 2020, but in June 2021, Perry announced that the engagement had been called off .