[News] Matthew Perry RIP

[METALMICKY]

That's really sad news. Friends was a classic show with superb writing and acting to match. Perry's comic timing and delivery was brilliant.

 

[Weststander]

RIP young man.

 

[Sheebo]

Gutted to hear this - part of my era growing up and right up to the present days. If addiction played any part it’s even sadder and needs to be respected by everyone.

 

[Triggaaar]

 

[Pavilionaire]

Friends was not my thing but the reach and appeal of that show was huge. A sad day for millions. RIP Matthew.

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

Sad news indeed. His abilities shone in the west wing for which he was nominated for an Emmy I believe, and Studio 60 on which he flourished with Sorkin's scripts.

 

[Poojah]

I’m absolutely shattered by this news. It’s not something I ever talk openly about, and maybe I should, but I have suffered terribly with addiction myself and when I read his book last year it was like looking into my own soul at times. I felt like I knew the person, for I could relate to struggles he had experienced.

For someone I never met, I feel a huge degree of pain and grief right now. It’s been a long time since the death of a celebrity affected my as viscerally as this.

 

[DJ NOBO]

Aside from sadness, an immediate reaction to news like this is ‘was it suicide?’.
It’s a minor consolation to hear it was not.