Matthew Perry Concerned ‘Friends’ Creator During His Appearance at 2021 Reunion
“Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman feared that Matthew Perry was struggling with drug addiction after seeing him during the 2021 taping of the show’s reunion special. Perry was found dead in his jacuzzi on Saturday at…
“Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman feared that Matthew Perry was struggling with drug addiction after seeing him during the 2021 taping of the show’s reunion special.
Perry was found dead in his jacuzzi on Saturday at the age of 54. No cause of Death has been released.
“I was concerned about him,” Kauffman told “Today” host Hoda Kotb in an interview that aired Wednesday.
“Knowing that he’d been through everything he’d been through, and every time he had surgery they’re giving him opioids for pain, and the cycle starts over again,” Kauffman explained.
“So, yes, I was concerned about what point in the cycle he was in that moment.”
Perry was slurring his speech during the show, worrying many fans.
The actor later acknowledged the slurring, explaining that he had undergone “emergency dental surgery” days before filming the “Friends” reunion, Page Six reported.
“They did all sorts of things,” Perry recounted in an October 2022 interview with ABC News. He said the procedure “made mouth feel like fire.”
“So what I chose to do was just go and do the best that I could,” he stated.
Kauffman told “Today” that she had just spoken with Perry two weeks before his death