

Matthew Perry Denise Truscello/WireImage
Saying goodbye to their good friend.
Matthew Perry was laid to relaxation at a personal funeral on Friday, November, 3, in response to a number of retailers. The service was reportedly held at Forest Garden Memorial Park in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills neighborhood, close to the Warner Bros. Studios lot the place Mates was filmed.
Perry’s former castmates Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer have been reportedly in attendance, per TMZ, together with Perry’s mom, Suzanne Morrison, his father, John Bennett Perry, and his stepfather, Keith Morrison.
The funeral comes practically one week after Matthew’s sudden loss of life on the age of 54 on Saturday, October 28. The actor was discovered “unconscious in a stand-alone jacuzzi” by legislation enforcement officers in his Pacific Palisades residence, with a press release from the Los Angeles Fireplace Division on Monday, October 30, confirming that he had been “deceased previous to the primary responder arrival.” His official reason for loss of life has but to be confirmed pending a toxicology report.
It was introduced earlier on Friday that Matthew’s legacy will dwell on by the Matthew Perry Basis, which can assist these “combating the illness of dependancy.” The charity is already up and operating and is accepting donations, and shall be “guided by his personal phrases and experiences and pushed by his ardour for making a distinction in as many lives as attainable.”
Thoughout his life, Matthew didn’t draw back from discussing his personal dependancy points, which he detailed in his 2022 memoir, Mates Lovers, and the Large Horrible Factor. Nevertheless, Matthew — who portrayed the witty Chandler Bing on Mates for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 — was vocal about desirous to be remembered for greater than his position on the hit sitcom.
“After I die, so far as my so-called accomplishments go, it could be good if Mates have been listed far behind the issues I did to attempt to assist different individuals,” he mentioned on a November 2022 episode of the “Q with Tom Energy” podcast. “I do know it gained’t occur, however it could be good.”
He continued: “The perfect factor about me, bar none, is that if an alcoholic or drug addict comes as much as me and says, ‘Will you assist me?’ I can say sure and observe up and do it. After I die, I don’t need Mates to be the very first thing that’s talked about. I need that to be the very first thing that’s talked about, and I’m going to dwell the remainder of my life proving that.”

Perry could not have wished for Mates to be his sole legacy, however it definitely was a big a part of life — particularly within the bond he made with costars. The forged paid tribute to their longtime good friend on Monday.
“We’re all so totally devastated by the lack of Matthew. We have been extra than simply forged mates. We’re a household,” Aniston, 54, Cox, 59, Kudrow, 60, LeBlanc, 56, and Schwimmer, 57, advised Us Weekly in a joint assertion on Monday. “There’s a lot to say, however proper now we’re going to take a second to grieve and course of this unfathomable loss.”
Earlier this week, Jim Burrows, who directed 15 episodes of Mates, shared that the ladies within the forged have been taking Perry’s loss of life significantly arduous. “I had texted the ladies the day we discovered,” he shared on the Thursday, November 2, episode of the Immediately present. “They have been destroyed. It’s a brother dying.”