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“Buddies” co-creator Marta Kauffman is sharing what she thinks are the very best methods to honor late actor Matthew Perry.
Kauffman stated two methods “come to thoughts” about easy methods to have fun Perry, who detailed his decades-long struggles with drug dependancy in his 2022 memoir and died final yr resulting from a Ketamine overdose. One is to donate to drug and remedy facilities.
“Let’s battle this illness,” Kauffman stated in an interview with The Instances of London printed on Friday.
The second approach, Kauffman added, “is to look at ‘Buddies’ and keep in mind him not as a person who died like that however as a person who was hilariously humorous and introduced pleasure to all people.”
Perry performed the quick-witted, beloved Chandler Bing on the NBC sitcom, which additionally starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc from 1994 to 2004.
Perry died in October 2023 at 54.
He was discovered floating face down in a jacuzzi at his Pacific Palisades residence. In accordance with the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s Workplace post-mortem report, Perry died because of “acute results of ketamine” and subsequent drowning.
On Thursday the US Lawyer’s Workplace announced at a information convention in Los Angeles that 5 folks had been charged in reference to Perry’s demise.
Investigators stated they uncovered an underground community of drug sellers and suppliers they allege are accountable for distributing the ketamine and that they imagine Perry “fell again into dependancy” final fall.
The defendants, in keeping with a news release from the US Lawyer’s Workplace, embody two docs, Perry’s private live-in assistant, and an individual referred to by authorities as “The Ketamine Queen.”
“He’s the one I had essentially the most contact with,” Kauffman instructed The Instances. “About two weeks earlier than [he died] he and I had been FaceTiming and he appeared actually good.”
It’s unclear if Kauffman’s feedback to The Instances, which had been a part of a function that celebrated 30 years of “Buddies,” had been made earlier than or after information of the indictments had been made public final week.
CNN on Thursday reached out to representatives for the forged of “Buddies” for remark.
In November, Aniston remembered Perry in a tribute posted to her Instagram web page, the place she, like Kauffman, honored her buddy for the way a lot he made all people chuckle.
“As he stated himself, if he didn’t hear the ‘chuckle’ he thought he was going to die,” she wrote. “His life actually relied on it. And boy did he reach doing simply that.”