Matthew Perry (Chandler) has died

Could i be anymore sadder!

Wow, that's awful. Hard one to wake up to. Huge Friends fan. Rip, Matthew aka Mr Bing.

How sad are you on the scale?

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How sober did he get?

He had the money and the influence to choose his own path. He did that.

Apparently he spent over 9 million dollars trying to get sober. Must have had some addiction.

9 million ..... was he trying to get sober by taking as much coke as possible to distract himself?

Was the MV Matthew named in his honour?

It's sad to see the waste. But as I said above he lived his life the way he wanted to. I wouldn't do it, but maybe he had the right idea and not me. Still, I would be slow to laud him for his addictions.

Ah he was very funny. Poor guy. Friends was iconic for the 90s. Funniest character on friends too.

RIP Ms Chanandler Bong

Nobody is lauding him for his addictions, they're lauding him for doing his best to overcome them.

Was never a fan of Friends - a bit too OTT on the "stupid" comedy for me - but RIP to him.

I don't know enough about his off screen life to have an opinion on his addictions/recovery but fair play to him for trying to get sober anyway, regardless of how successful or not he ultimately may have been.

Although this thread should really be in AH or TV like most. Not really a CA?

Friends was the most overrated show if all time, it created a follow the crowd mentality with its dry humour.

He definitely did Cocaine but I'm not sure he was addicted. He also had alcohol problems.

He was definitely addicted to prescription opioids like vicodin and oxy. Those things are lethal. Basically heroin in pill form.

He definitely tried to help other addicts with recovery and should be lauded for that.

He was also a great comic actor. I've seen enough average ones to recognise a great one.

It's a shame. He's on record as saying he wanted to dedicate the rest of his life to helping others.

Apparently he was playing pickleball for 2 hours in the morning and then went for a soak in his hot tub.

It's a young age to go but similar age to Gerry Ryan.

All the pills and drugs and alcohol and smoking would've destroyed his heart.

Probably didn't look after his diet or exercise either.

Some people are more susceptible to addiction so deserve empathy.

Andrew Huberman says that 8% of people have a gene that are more sensitive to alcohol and it increases dopamine and they feel euphoric.

He did other stuff, Studio 60 is great. Also the whole 9 yards was good fun. Also apparently great in his brief role in The West Wing. Personally not a huge fan of friends but it's still iconic and a lot of people grew up with the character of Chandler.

I never said anything bad or not nice so what are you on about?

I'm sympathetic towards people who have substance abuse problems, it's not an easy life in any sense. Perry developed the drug problem after a jet ski accident and was prescribed Vicodin. This as a story is pretty common in the US due to the opiate addiction crisis so yep I and others can see the tragedy of it. On top of that after recovery, he did tonnes of activism around addiction.

So he's far from a perfect but there's nothing wrong with having sympathy towards him.

No, the poster just said they didn't like that show (hardly a crime now?)

Then they said that if he hadn't had so much money, he might not have developed those issues. Do you disagree? Nobody knows if this is correct or not, but it is a reasonable thing to say. You seem to read it as a personal attack on the deceased.

Yep, I've officially become my parents

Addiction is a scourge. To laugh or mock someone is the lowest of the low.

Rip chandler.

His recent book was a tough, but interesting read, it was very warts and all, still sad news.

Loved him in The Whole Nine Yards, a classic easy watch movie.

I'm a huge friends fan, I've seen every episode infinite times and often have it on in the background when working.

No show is for everyone, there's more than a few popular shows that I just don't "get", but anything that becomes a global phenomenom like friends did is doing something very right.

His addiction stemmed from a genuine serious accident, he's just one of millions of people who got addicted to opiods in the 90s as they were pushed far too aggressively and readily. The show Dopesick is an excellent drama about how that happened.

His story really is tragic and he was an undeniable talent, his comic acting was superb. I personally think him and David Schwimmer carried friends, not to say the others aren't good but they were by far the funniest with better range than the others.

Could he “be” anymore dead?

i remember as a young teen in the 90s not being allowed to watch friends 😀. Too many sex references. A great show of its time.

Ray Liotta, Coolio, Taylor Hawkins, Kirstie Alley, Norm McDonald, Maradona, Chris Cornell, Dolores O'Riordan, Whitney Houston, Shane Warne, Meat Loaf

Junkie is an unnecessarily provocative word, but that’s probably why you used it.

Attempting to recover from a serious addiction is horrendously difficult and painful, and it is a lifelong effort. Many with similar addictions as Matthew had do not make it. Addiction itself is no walk in the park for that matter.

Getting clean and going on to help many others is laudable in itself, and there is no doubt that Matthew changed a lot of lives for the better.

Have some decency.