Matthew Perry (Chandler) has died

https://news.sky.com/story/friends-star-matthew-perry-dies-of-apparent-drowning-at-54-12995478

Only 54 😕

yerwanthere123

Oh wow, this is deeply shocking and sad. There's a lot of people in their twenties and thirties like myself who grew up watching him. Friends is one of my all time favorite tv shows, will be difficult watching it in the same light now. Only 54, RIP Matthew Perry.

Dazler97

Apparent drowning according to skynews ,I'm honestly lost for words he was such a great person and character on friends , for a laugh check out the friends bloopers some of the great ones are from Matthew 😞

larchielads

Could i be anymore sadder!

clampedusa

Damn. No-one told me life was gonna be this way.

Be right back

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

orangerhyme

Whitney Houston and Delores O'Riordan also died in similar circumstances.

RIP.

Great comic actor. Fantastic delivery of his lines. Could do pathos also when needed.

"Friends" was a cultural phenomenon at the time just before internet and smartphones, so the day after an episode, everyone would talk about it.

It defined the 90s really.

It might be the last big sitcom before content became atomised.

It's a shame since I think he was involved in the addiction community and was giving back with his own experience. I think he started an addiction recovery center in a house somewhere.

Kermit.de.frog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121296920#Comment_121296920

How sad are you on the scale?

☹️🙁😟😞😕😔

As soon as I signed onto Twitter and saw he was the #1 trend my heart sank.

Credit to him for getting sober and turning his life around and then using his experience to help others.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121296952#Comment_121296952

How sober did he get?

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

Working class heroes

Oh. My. Gawd.

R.I.P.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297074#Comment_121297074

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

AMKC

I was never a big fan of the "friends" show. It was one of the most overrated shows of the 90s. Sure they could not even come up with a proper title for it and the amount of money the actors on this rubbish show got was just wrong but this is still sad. Still if he did not get paid silly money and had a normal everyday job he might still be alive.

R.I.P Mathew Perry

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297081#Comment_121297081

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.

Ezeoul

He has been sober for a couple of years.

Cause of death is reported as a cardiac arrest, while in his hot tub.

There's already a thread on this on "TV".

TheValeyard

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

RIP Ms Chanandler Bong

PokeHerKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297117#Comment_121297117

The man got addicted to prescribed heroin. Calm down on your judgement you sad little person.

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297117#Comment_121297117

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

KaneToad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121296937#Comment_121296937

*Dolores

Dunno why but it irks me when her name is mispellt.

_Kaiser_

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?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297100#Comment_121297100

Did noone ever tell you if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all ?

Dakota Dan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121296912#Comment_121296912

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

Ezeoul

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297207#Comment_121297207

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

There is:

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057764487/rip-thread-for-people-involved-in-tv

Though I hope none of the nastiness on this thread is merged with it.

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297217#Comment_121297217

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.

Montage of Feck

A bit depressing alright that cultural icons from my 90's youth are starting to die off at an increasing rate.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297252#Comment_121297252

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.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297283#Comment_121297283

It's a bit strange that people are so protective of anyone not being dishonestly positive in relation to some now deceased celebrity's drug use.

I made a quip about the MV Matthew (I had assumed nobody would think it was a actual serious question) and I got told off because another random poster knows for a fact that the deceased never took cocaine. Mental

The thread title could just as easily be "American with drug addictions dies young".

Come on and talk about what he did in his work etc. But if posters are going on about his drug use - and in a sympathetic or positive manner. What do they expect in response - "ah yeah, fair play to him for being mad for the ould drugs"

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297221#Comment_121297221

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

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297313#Comment_121297313

It was literally a rant about Friends, actors money and drug abuse. An RIP tagged on at the end doesn't make it any different.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297311#Comment_121297311

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.

Be right back

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297325#Comment_121297325

It wasn't a nice post but they didn't see that they had written anything not nice?... OK..

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297325#Comment_121297325

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.

ancapailldorcha

I feel like he should have had a much better career than he actually did. He was enormously talented but his addiction problem held him back.

He says in his book apparently that he's the celebrity whose death would surprise nobody. Very sad. RIP.

PokeHerKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297299#Comment_121297299

Yep, I've officially become my parents

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297357#Comment_121297357

Since he developed the addiction as a result of drugs prescribed for an injury, yep it's pretty possible that he would have developed an addiction. You know most opiate addicts aren't rich? The wealth made the option of recovery more accessible in the end though which it sadly isn't for others.

Gusser09

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

Rip chandler.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297100#Comment_121297100

FFS, if you've nothing to say just don't say it. So, you didn't rate Friends. Millions did.

gmisk

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

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297378#Comment_121297378

That's perfectly fine Bobson. There are lots of humourless dry sh1tes around. I just don't get too upset on their behalf. I've no problem with you if you are one of them.

It's probably not the best to engage too much with a brand new account so I'll leave it there

clampedusa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297378#Comment_121297378

Hes the funniest in the world. People say it all the time. They ask him 'how are you so funny'.

McFly85

RIP Matthew.

Friends was an absolute game changer for television comedy in the 90s and in many ways embodied the decade, and Chandler was an absolute highlight of the show.

An immensely talented actor who would have been far more prolific without his addiction problems, 54 is far too young to go too. A real tragedy.

Homelander

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297358#Comment_121297358

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.

prunudo

Friends wasn't really my thing, but the older we get the greater the chance we will lose icons or celebrities who shaped our youth and often contuine to do so. Depending on who they are or your connection with them will effect different people differently. But unfortunately a lot are taken too early due to their lifestyle through either addiction, drugs or the high risk sport they take part in (motorsport).

As I said in the past when my hero's have passed, thank you for entertaining us, rest easy.

893bet

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.

moonage

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297196#Comment_121297196

"Mispellt." Oops!

I've never been able to get through a full episode of Friends.

I recently saw him in The Whole Nine Yards, which was was pretty enjoyable.

I wonder did his previous drug taking have any bearing on the cardiac arrest. RIP.

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297299#Comment_121297299

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

HBC08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297210#Comment_121297210

He was Canadian.

Cup

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297210#Comment_121297210

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.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297464#Comment_121297464

His mother was the press secretary of Trudeau senior and his father was an actor/model in LA who got steady tv work. Matthew went to the same school as Trudeau junior for a while.

tesla_newbie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297252#Comment_121297252

Friends had “ dry humour “ ?

tesla_newbie

You do wonder if people like this were cursed when they found success in showbiz

might have been a lot better had he been a regular nine to five guy , the millions allowed him over indulge in prescription drugs following his injury