Matthew Perry, who charmed audiences across the globe as the sarcastic roommate Chandler Bing on the popular sitcom Friends, was reportedly found dead on Oct. 28 at his Los Angeles home from an apparent drowning, law enforcement sources confirmed to Rolling Stone.
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In addition to Friends — which ran for 10 seasons and 236 episodes, and for a number of years was one of the most-watched television shows in America, earning Perry an Emmy nomination in 2002 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series — the actor earned a pair of Emmy nods for his scene-stealing turn as Associate White House Counsel Joe Quincy on The West Wing, and had memorable performances on Scrubs, The Good Wife/The Good Fight, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as well as the films Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards series, and 17 Again opposite Zac Efron.
When the news of Perry’s passing broke Saturday afternoon, a number of prominent right-wing/anti-vax accounts on X (formerly Twitter) — including Kandiss Taylor, a former Republican candidate for governor of Georgia and current GOP chair of Georgia’s 1st congressional district (and who also recently compared Taylor Swift to Satan) — were quick to blame the actor’s death on Perry being vaccinated for Covid-19 — even before an official cause of death had been established.
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In previous interviews, Perry admitted to being in rehab at least 15 times and getting 14 surgeries on his stomach due to gastrointestinal perforation stemming from his opioid abuse.
Then, at the age of 49, his colon burst from excessive opioid use and he spent two weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital, he wrote in his bestselling 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
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In late 2020, Perry had to pull out of filming a cameo in Adam McKay’s climate change satire Don’t Look Up after his heart stopped for five minutes and his ribs had to be broken to resuscitate him, he detailed in his memoir.
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Matthew Perry, who charmed audiences across the globe as the sarcastic roommate Chandler Bing on the popular sitcom Friends, was reportedly found dead on Oct. 28 at his Los Angeles home from an apparent drowning, law enforcement sources confirmed to Rolling Stone.
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In addition to Friends — which ran for 10 seasons and 236 episodes, and for a number of years was one of the most-watched television shows in America, earning Perry an Emmy nomination in 2002 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series — the actor earned a pair of Emmy nods for his scene-stealing turn as Associate White House Counsel Joe Quincy on The West Wing, and had memorable performances on Scrubs, The Good Wife/The Good Fight, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as well as the films Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards series, and 17 Again opposite Zac Efron.
When the news of Perry’s passing broke Saturday afternoon, a number of prominent right-wing/anti-vax accounts on X (formerly Twitter) — including Kandiss Taylor, a former Republican candidate for governor of Georgia and current GOP chair of Georgia’s 1st congressional district (and who also recently compared Taylor Swift to Satan) — were quick to blame the actor’s death on Perry being vaccinated for Covid-19 — even before an official cause of death had been established.
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In previous interviews, Perry admitted to being in rehab at least 15 times and getting 14 surgeries on his stomach due to gastrointestinal perforation stemming from his opioid abuse.
Then, at the age of 49, his colon burst from excessive opioid use and he spent two weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital, he wrote in his bestselling 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
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In late 2020, Perry had to pull out of filming a cameo in Adam McKay’s climate change satire Don’t Look Up after his heart stopped for five minutes and his ribs had to be broken to resuscitate him, he detailed in his memoir.
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