Fans, relatives, and friends remember Matthew Perry. RIP, Chandler Bing

A day after the actor was discovered dead in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home, Matthew Perry, the witty co-star of the popular television sitcom Friends from the 1990s, was remembered on Sunday by family, friends, and other celebrities.

“As an actor and a friend, Matthew brought so much joy to the world,” Perry’s family wrote in a statement that People magazine published. “The tragic loss of our beloved son and brother has left us heartbroken.” Perry’s supporters were praised in the statement for their “tremendous outpouring of love.”

The show’s main creative team, Kevin Bright, David Crane, and Marta Kauffman, stated in a statement on Sunday that “it still seems impossible.” “All we can say is that we consider ourselves fortunate to have known him.”

Following announcements from Warner Bros Television Group, the show’s producer, and NBC, the broadcast network that ran Friends for ten years, word of Perry’s passing spread late on Saturday. No formal information was made available right away.

When asked about the circumstances surrounding Perry’s death, Captain Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department responded, stating that firefighters had called an address in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood and discovered “an adult male unconscious in a stand-alone jacuzzi,” without mentioning Perry by name.

“A quick medical assessment at the scene revealed that the man was deceased” prior to emergency personnel arriving, Scott texted Reuters. “A bystander had brought the man’s head above the water and gotten him to the edge, then firefighters removed him from the water upon their arrival.”

Medical examiners will identify the reason and manner of death, he stated. Scott’s story lined up with many news stories that stated Perry was discovered dead in his Los Angeles hot tub, citing law enforcement sources. Those reports said there was no suspicion of foul play.

Perry passed away one year following the release of his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. The book detailed his decades-long struggles with alcohol and prescription painkiller addiction, which he claimed nearly took his life multiple times.

The American-Canadian actor wrote, “Hello, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name,” in the book’s introduction. My pals refer to me as Matty. I ought to be dead, too. Perry claimed to have been clean for roughly eighteen months at the time.

For the majority of Friends’ original network run from 1994 to 2004, Perry was most renowned for his role as the sardonically witty statistics analyst Chandler Bing. The sitcom was consistently listed among the top 10 prime-time television programs.

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Lisa Kudrow were all catapulted into international celebrities by the series, which is still well-liked in syndication. Perry was also one of the five lead cast members. The six, who portrayed a close-knit group of young singles who shared homes and congregated at the fictional Manhattan coffee shop “Central Perk,” won widespread praise from critics for their chemistry on screen.

Perry never married in real life, despite the fact that Chandler and Cox’s character, Monica, were married in the seventh season of the show. As of Sunday afternoon, none of Perry’s Friends co-stars had released a statement regarding his passing. However, the official Friends Instagram page posted the following: “We are deeply saddened by the news of Matthew Perry’s passing. For us all, he was a genuine gift. Our thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones, family, and all of his admirers.

On Saturday night, singer Adele paid a moving homage to actor Tyler Perry and his Chandler persona at her Las Vegas performance. As the crowd applauded, she remarked, “I’ll remember that character for the rest of my life,” according to the Los Angeles Times. She declared, “It’s likely the greatest comedic actor of all time.”