Matthew Perry died on Saturday at age 54 at his Los Angeles dwelling, a number of retailers report. The actor is pictured in 2009 on the L.A. premiere of The Invention of Lying.

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Matthew Perry died on Saturday at age 54 at his Los Angeles dwelling, a number of retailers report. The actor is pictured in 2009 on the L.A. premiere of The Invention of Lying.

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Actor Matthew Perry, greatest identified for enjoying Chandler Bing on the hit TV present Friends, has died, in accordance with a number of media retailers. He was 54 years outdated.

Perry was discovered lifeless of an obvious drowning at his Los Angeles dwelling on Saturday, in accordance with the Los Angeles Times, celebrity outlet TMZ and different reviews.

Perry was forged in Friends, the sitcom that shot him to fame, at age 24. He starred as Chandler for the sitcom’s whole 10-season run, a sarcastic but affable commitment-phobe who later discovered love with the Type-A Monica Geller (Courteney Cox).

“I loved Chandler, I loved the show, and I also knew: Remember this, because it’s going to be the best time of your life,” Perry stated in an ABC News Nightline interview with Diane Sawyer final yr.

But behind the scenes, Perry struggled with dependancy. He opened up about his decades-long extreme use of alcohol and tablets in his memoir revealed final yr, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. In the e-book, which he devoted to fellow victims of dependancy, he detailed his painful battle with drug use and his associated well being issues: He stated he’d spent half of his life in therapy, detoxed an estimated 65 instances and underwent 14 surgical procedures.

“Whenever I bumped into something that I didn’t really want to share, I would think of the people that I would be helping, and it would keep me going,” the actor told The New York Times final yr.

While on set, Perry stated he tried to maintain his dependancy hidden and described his unhealthy relationship together with his work.

“I felt like I was gonna die if the live audience didn’t laugh, and that’s not healthy for sure,” Perry wrote in the memoir. “But I could sometimes say a line and the audience wouldn’t laugh and I would sweat and sometimes go into convulsions. If I didn’t get the laugh I was supposed to get I would freak out. I felt that every single night. This pressure left me in a bad place. I also knew of the six people making that show, only one of them was sick.”

Friend and co-star Lisa Kudrow was quoted within the Nightline episode as saying, “Matthew Perry was always the one trying to keep everyone else happy.”

Perry obtained an Emmy nomination for his Friends function and two extra for his dramatic flip as affiliate White House counsel on The West Wing.

Perry additionally starred in a number of movies, together with Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards, 17 Again and the TV present Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

Born in Massachusetts, the actor was raised in numerous components of Canada, usually touring between the houses of his break up dad and mom in Los Angeles and Montreal. In Canada, he turned a nationally ranked junior tennis participant.

Later in life, the actor moved on to pickleball, the Times reported, even getting a court docket constructed at his new dwelling within the Pacific Palisades.