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'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.