RIP Chandler Bing you had some good laughs
Signed, million man
Quite a shock, sadly. I know he had his struggles with substance abuse, but this is a shame. Rest in Peace, Mr. Perry. 🌹
shareApparently the authorities said drugs don't appear to be a factor. Maybe alcohol or he fell asleep (which I never understood).
shareI wonder if it's possible that his substance abuse damaged his heart and it was a heart attack that killed him.
shareI believe he had heart issues a few years ago. It's possible.
shareOr smoking maybe
@samoanjoes: Yeah he did 3 years ago:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/matthew-perry-heart-stopped-dont-look-up-movie-meryl-streep-1234615120/
Matthew Perry was set to make an appearance opposite Meryl Streep in Don’t Look Up but had to pull out of the film following a medical scare while at a treatment center in Switzerland amid his decades-long addiction battle.
Around this time (November 2020), Perry says he went to a luxury rehab in Switzerland, where he was put up in a villa overlooking Lake Geneva and had his own butler and chef. Unable to completely give up his addiction, Perry says he was insisting to his doctors that he had severe stomach pain so they’d prescribe him drugs. “In fact, I was OK,” he writes. “It still felt like I was constantly doing a sit-up — so it was very uncomfortable — but it wasn’t pain.”
Doctors at the rehab center had been prescribing Perry hydrocodone, but to help with his pain further, they decided to “put some kind of weird medical device in my back,” which would require surgery.
The night before the operation, Perry writes that he stayed up all night taking hydrocodone. In the operating room, he was administered propofol, which is regularly used for anaesthesia. But the drug stopped Perry’s heart.
“I was given the shot at 11:00 a.m.,” he writes. “I woke up eleven hours later in a different hospital. Apparently, the propofol had stopped my heart. For five minutes. It wasn’t a heart attack — I didn’t flatline — but nothing had been beating.
I was told that some beefy Swiss guy really didn’t want the guy from Friends dying on his table and did CPR on me for the full five minutes, beating and pounding my chest. If I hadn’t been on Friends, would he have stopped at three minutes? Did Friends save my life again? “He may have saved my life, but he also broke eight of my ribs,” he adds.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/matthew-perry-nearly-died-colon-burst-opioid-abuse-1234614251share
Back in 2018, Matthew Perry spent several months in a hospital, saying only at the time that he suffered a gastrointestinal perforation. Now, in a new interview with People ahead of the publication of his new memoir, the Friends star explains that during that hospital stay, he nearly died after his colon burst from opioid abuse.
Perry spent two weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital and had to use a colostomy bag for nine months. When he was admitted, he said, “the doctors told my family that I had a two percent chance to live.” He was hooked up to an ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs, referring to the measure as “a Hail Mary. No one survives that.”
He added, “There were five people put on an ECMO machine that night, and the other four died, and I survived. So the big question is why? Why was I the one? There has to be some kind of reason.”
Alcohol is a drug.
shareBad news, sorry to hear of it.
RIP 😔
shareShocked. RIP
shareRIP. I never watched "Friends" or really saw a lot of the stuff he was in, but his death has made me very sad. I dated a woman in the late 90s who loved "Friends" and I will acknowledge that it was one of the landmark shows of the 90s. We live in such a crap world anymore...I miss the 90s. 😢
Also, I didn't realize I was actually about 3 months older than him. I knew Jennifer Aniston was about 3 months older than me.
Only later did I come to appreciate the music of the 90s, because what came after was worse.
shareYes...I've always blamed the guy who founded the "boy bands" (I can never remember his name...just looked it up: Lou Pearlman) as the guy who really killed the "90s music." It's never recovered and probably never will recover, unfortunately.
shareI've never been a fan of the show, but I was still pretty shocked. More surprising that it wasn't a drug overdose.
shareYes...he really had a rough life in a lot of ways. It's weird how his death has affected me, though, because I never watched "Friends" or really saw Perry in much of anything. I think part of it is that we were pretty much the same age...but part of it is the "nostalgia" of the 1990s also. Not everything was perfect back in the 90s for sure, but it was a lot more fun to be alive back then, IMO. It's just a different world today...I miss the 90s.
shareIt's definitely nostalgia. You just become accustomed to seeing them everywhere even if you've never seen what they did. Then suddenly when they're gone, you really feel that loss.
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