The fire department could not confirm reports Perry had drowned.
“Friends” stars David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc pose at the Emmy Awards on September 22, 2002 . Picture: AFP/File/LEE CELANO
“We responded at 4:10 pm… It is a death investigation for a male in his 50s,” a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman told AFP, without confirming the deceased’s name. During the height of his success, Perry battled for years with addiction to painkillers and alcohol, and attended rehabilitation clinics on multiple occasions.
Perry dedicated the book to “all of the sufferers out there,” and wrote in the prologue: “I should be dead.” “Oh no!!! Matthew Perry!! You sweet, troubled soul!!” wrote Mira Sorvino, who starred with Perry in the 1994 television movie “Parallel Lives.”Josh Charles, who appeared with Perry on “The Good Wife,” wrote: “Awful news. RIP brother.”
As a young teenager, Perry was a nationally ranked tennis star in Canada before moving permanently to California and pursuing acting.
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