Matthew Perry passed away at 54 due to drowning!

‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry dead at 54, found in hot tub at L.A. home: 

“Friends” star Matthew Perry populary known for his role as Chandler was found dead on Saturday in a hot tub at his LA Home.  Matthew’s assistant found him unresponsive Saturday morning at his home, just a couple hours after he’d completed a 2-hour match of pickleball. “Our sources say he was found in a hot tub, and there were no drugs found at the scene,” as per the reports. 

Everyone who knows him as ‘Chandler Bing’ also knows about his real-life struggles. He fought addiction while shooting for FRIENDS, in which he played a funny and wise-cracking character. He opened up on his health in his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing which was released in 2022. Matthew had undergone 14 major surgeries on his stomach and at one point took more than 50 painkiller medicines. “I say in the book that if I did die, it would shock people, but it wouldn’t surprise anybody,” he said in an interview with People Magazine in October 2022.

Perry rose to fame as one of the stars of Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004 and was one of the most popular shows on U.S. television.

The show’s creators, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, and its executive producer Kevin Bright, said Perry’s death “still seems impossible”.

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow who are yet to break the silence over Matthew’s death, are expected to share a joint statement soon, as per a report of Page Six. Sources also said that all of them are ‘devastated.’ An industry source revealed that Perry’s former co-stars are “reeling” over the news of his passing and are preparing to release a joint tribute to their friend.

Perry’s “Friends” co-star Maggie Wheeler, who played his on-again, off-again girlfriend Janice on the hit show, shared a sweet tribute on social media. 

There were lots of speculations and rumors going on with his death. Some expected cold-blooded murder whereas others believed in revenge killing. Perry had a long history of struggling with alcohol and prescription drug addiction, which he revealed in his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.

He underwent multiple surgeries, around 14, and was hospitalized for five months following a colon rupture which left him “with a 2% chance to live through the night,” he wrote in his book. He suffered from narcotic bowel syndrome due to overuse of opioids.

Perry, the son of actor John Bennett Perry and Suzanne Marie Langford, onetime press secretary of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was born in 1969 and grew up between Canada and Los Angeles after his parents separated when Perry was 1.