Perry died Saturday at his Los Angeles home. He was 54.
Morgan Fairchild, who played Chandler Bing’s mother on “Friends,” paid tribute on Monday to the actor who portrayed him, Matthew Perry.During an appearance on “CNN This Morning,” Fairchild shared memories of her first day on the “Friends” set after she snagged the role of Nora Bing, the mom of Perry’s character.“The show was not a huge hit yet when I started working on it,” she recalled. “He came bounding over to me, literally bounding like a big puppy and said, ‘Oh, you won’t remember me.
”Fairchild also praised Perry for his openness about his struggles with addiction, which he documented in his book, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir.”“I think that one of the bravest things that he did in his career and his life was to go public, to write this book, to reach out to other people, to try to be of help to other people,” she said. “And that was one of the most endearing things about him.
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