George Clooney has mentioned that Matthew Perry’s position on Friends “didn’t bring him joy or happiness or peace”.
The ER actor, 62, mirrored on his friendship with Perry after he died in October aged 54.
He advised US publication Deadline: “I knew Matt when he was 16 years previous. We used to play paddle tennis collectively. He’s about 10 years youthful than me. And he was an incredible, humorous, humorous, humorous child.
“He was a kid and all he would say to us, I mean me, Richard Kind and Grant Heslov, was, ‘I just want to get on a sitcom, man. I just want to get on a regular sitcom and I would be the happiest man on earth’. And he got on probably one of the best ever,” Clooney mentioned.
The pair shot to fame on the similar time, with ER and Friends each debuting in 1994 and airing on Thursday nights within the US. Clooney mentioned they had been “side-by-side on the soundstage”.
“Watching that go on on the lot – we were at Warner Brothers, we were there right next to each other – it was hard to watch because we didn’t know what was going through him,” Clooney added.
“We just knew that he wasn’t happy and I had no idea he was doing what, 12 Vicodin a day and all the stuff he talked about, all that heartbreaking stuff.”
“And it also just tells you that success and money and all those things, it doesn’t just automatically bring you happiness. You have to be happy with yourself and your life.”
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A autopsy dominated Perry’s demise as an accident from the “acute effects of ketamine“.
Perry, finest recognized for taking part in wise-cracking Chandler Bing in Friends, was discovered unresponsive within the swimming pool at his LA residence on 28 October and pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Other contributing elements to his demise included drowning, coronary artery illness and the consequences of buprenorphine, which can be utilized to deal with opioid use dysfunction, officers mentioned.
Source: information.sky.com”