Matthew Perry (Chandler) has died

Lots of regular people get hooked on opioids but as their tolerance grows, they move onto heroin as it's much cheaper (Listen to podcast "Hooked"). Then you're dancing with the devil as tolerance grows further and heroin is cut so can easily OD.

So maybe Matthew Perry's money saved him.

There might also be a connection between fame and addiction. People who seek fame might be more susceptible to addiction. People who are famous might turn to drugs also to deal with problems etc.

Read your first post in this thread. Hardly a normal reaction to a popular actor's death. Who mentioned the presidency or his wealth besides you? You started with a pointless post, so stop digging.

So if it comes out that the deceased died with drugs in his system, you won't make allowances for his being "addicted"? You seem to be implying that you know he isn't "actively addicted".

Agreed. This thread is not great.

RIP Matthew, thanks for the laughs.

@DaCor or @Sephiroth_dude , Please update the title to correct the spelling of his name (2 ts in first name)

They both appeared together in an episode of Scrubs, an episode that Matthew Perry also directed.

I'm sad to see this, he was the standout in Friends, a genuinely talented comedic actor.

RIP Matthew.

Didn’t like Friends at first but constant repeats gradually made it click for me. Chandler was my favourite and Matthew Perry resembled a friend of mine in appearance. Gone well before his time. RIP.

Seinfeld was great, Friends was rubbish

What a lovely though. RIP to both of then💞

Both Perry and Schwimmer were by far the two best comic actors on Friends (they were head and shoulders above the other four) - with Perry having the more likable character of those two. He and Aniston was best placed in terms of his skillset to have had a good post Friends career, something which his addiction issues prevented.

Having read some extracts from Perry's book, to me at least he had an addictive personality being drawn to heavy alcohol abuse at a relatively young age. The first time he took vicodin he described it as shaking hands with God. If that's how you describe painkillers then it's only going one way.

It's a real shame that his problems prevented him from moving on as a typecast sitcom actor that he played very well into being an all around great comic actor.

Sad to hear. Growing up in the 90's, Friends was a fixture of Monday nights on tv. Many of us were still in 3 channel land.

Saw a bit about Perry last year when his book came out and watched a few of his stage and tv interviews. He came across as very sharp and a natural comic. Of all the Friends cast, he was certainly the closest to his character. You get the impression, the other 5 wouldn't string a sentence together were it not for the writers, while Perry seemed like he could ad lib Chandler without an issue.

He spoke at length in those interviews about his drug and alcohol addictions and it was insane. I remember thinking it's a miracle he's alive at all, with the quantity of stuff he's put into his system.