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Friend's Chandler, Matthew Perry, died at 54
- galkk 3y agoDamn. Regardless of death cause check your health regularly people. 54 is too early
- jacktribe 3y agoHe went through detox 65 times.
- TMWNN 3y agoPerry would look very, very different on Friends between the last episode of a season and the first episode of the next, because he would go through rehab. Especially noticeable when watching reruns when the episodes are connected with a cliffhanger.
- Fezzik 3y agoIn one of his recent interviews for his book tour he talked about how could not now watch Friends because, based on how looked in the particular season, he would immediately remember what drug he was struggling with - pills, cocaine, or alcohol.
- TMWNN 3y agoThat's horrible to hear. Reminds me of Stephen King. From Wikipedia: >Stephen King discusses Cujo in On Writing, referring to it as a novel he "barely remembers writing at all." King wrote the book during the height of his struggle with alcohol addiction. King goes on to say he likes the book and wishes he could remember enjoying the good parts as he put them on the page. I imagine that Perry probably could not remember filming many episodes/scenes.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoYeah. It's more like get help if you need it, sooner rather than later. Whether that help is for substance or food, constant excess will add up and move up your end date, often significantly.
- Quinzel 3y agoWow that has got to take a toll on one’s body, mind and soul.
- hinkley 3y agoTom Selleck, who played Monica’s inappropriately old boyfriend, outlived Chanandler Bong.
- temp_praneshp 3y agoGave me so much joy as a kid. RIP
- benjaminwootton 3y agoAnd as an adult. Friends is still our go-to after we tire of scrolling Netflix for something good.
- temp_praneshp 3y agoYeah sorry, I was just writing about the first time. I was watching the episode with joey stealing all of chandler's dresses only last evening :(
- vsnf 3y agoThis is the best episode in the series hands down. The premise is entirely self contained and easy to understand, the joke density is unparalleled (like that off-screen one about Ross’s dinosaur watch not working), the characters are interacting with each other in their purest forms, and the physical humor, especially Joey jumping into the chair, is so well timed.
- TMWNN 3y agoFriends was already successful in syndication, of course, but on Netflix it gained new life among young people. A new generation of young women got invested in the Ross-Rachel relationship and Jennifer Aniston became their role model, just as she had been to their mothers and older sisters two decades earlier.
- doomlaser 3y agoFound unresponsive in his hot tub. That's sad. He was very funny and charismatic in his acting roles, and it was not that long ago he was giving interviews about his life, post sobriety. 11 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oZuK0ri7Y8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oZuK0ri7Y8
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- DANmode 3y agoCaptioned: "Oh, so warm water swirling around makes you feel good? I'm Mattman."
- dehrmann 3y ago"Reality is an acquired taste"
- TMWNN 3y agoFark's headline: So no one told you death was going to be this way <https://www.fark.com/comments/13038330 https://www.fark.com/comments/13038330>
- mberning 3y agoI didn’t realize fark was still active.
- upon_drumhead 3y agoThere are dozens of us! Dozens!
- sidlls 3y agoAlmost as many as those of us with stairs in our house.
- bikingbismuth 3y agoAt least we are protected.
- hotnfresh 3y agoWhere else a person gonna go for excellent hurricane threads? / I’d stopped visiting for like five years. // But the spectacle of the Trump years dragged me back in.
- TMWNN 3y agoDid the Trump era actually revive readership/participation? Fark had been shrinking for years thanks to Reddit (just like most other online discussion sites), and Drew and his lackeys going full SJW regarding Trump was the last straw regarding its health as an ongoing business. Basically what happened to MetaFilter several years earlier. I haven't participated in Fark (or MeFi) for years, but still subscribe to Fark's breaking news alerts for the headlines it produces, including this one.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoOh wow. I thought today was bad because Le Keqiang passed away (the guy that should have been president rather than Xi). This is also shocking.
- i_have_an_idea 3y agoRemarkably talented but troubled. Played one of my all-time favorite characters on TV. He will be missed. Rip.
- Abecid 3y agoOh my god
- TMWNN 3y ago>OH. MY. GAWD. FTFY
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Perry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Perry
- omarfarooq 3y agoHow is it possible to spend $9M to rehabilitate one individual?
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoTo fail to rehabilitate one individual…
- manquer 3y agoRehab is an industry, if you have money there is a lot of high end places which are basically luxurious hotels with loads additional staff monitoring you 24×7 . It would be quite easy to spend even 50M on rehab , if you are going to have celebrity speakers[1] coming and doing motivational sessions etc on top of very luxurious stay that can be thousands of dollars a day . [1] for a celebrity addict, it may even have a lot value, few people can understand how fame affects someone thab a another celebrity who became say sober after a tough struggle.
- webmobdev 3y agoThat's US healthcare for you.
- hellotheretoday 3y agoTo be fair rehab is it’s own unique monster often outside of the healthcare system. I’m sure someone of his means wasn’t going to insurance funded rehab. There are tons of boutique rehab options that will gladly take 50,000, 100,000, 500,000 for a stint that includes all sorts of “luxury” accommodations like massage, chef/catering, fancy private rooms, on site security, etc. some of these place will also take your insurance for the base rehab program but then you can pay thousands to add on the luxury stuff as well. It’s a fringe part of the medical system that doesn’t apply to 99% of people Don’t get me wrong rehab is a costly endeavor regardless but rich actors spending millions on rehab is often because they’re doing it in style. They aren’t going to recovery centers of America, eating Sysco hospital food, and sharing a room with a 22 year old heroin addict that steals car stereos whose family is giving them one last chance. That 22 year old will still end up paying a lot but not as much as you’d think for 28 day inpatient residential. It’s often like 20-40k which is for sure a lot of money but when you think of taking care of a human being for a month, monitoring them, feeding them, housing them, providing them counseling (usually multiple types), nursing and admin support, etc. it’s especially crazy when a single mri can take that number in a 40 minute scan.
- basisword 3y agoSuch a shame. I read his autobiography last year and the things he went through because of addiction were horrifying. Incredible that he was struggling so much yet still able to portray such an iconic character.
- keyle 3y agoMakes you wonder sometimes, if fame isn't a curse.
- esperent 3y agoI don't wonder about that, I'm sure of it. Imagine being hassled by strangers wherever you go. Paparazzi. Never being able to go to normal places without a bodyguard. Everyone wants selfies with you. It would be very hard to live your life without feeling like you are performing constantly. It's no wonder so many famous people struggle with addiction.
- ghaff 3y agoThe money's mostly nice. And I'm sure it's hard to totally tune out what comes from people being fans in entertainment/sports/really lots of things. But I have to believe most people who are really on the celebrity circuit still find the negative aspects you mention tiresome even if you can tune some of it out with money.
- esperent 3y agoWell I wouldn't turn down being rich but not famous. But on balance, I think it worth giving up a hell of a lot of money in exchange for being able to live a "normal" life.
- iancmceachern 3y agoFor some it totally is. For others it's not. People often question folks who leave the famous life behind to protect themselves, Lauren Hill, Dave Chappell, Seinfeld, etc. I think it makes perfect sense.
- stavros 3y agoThat's sad, I remember watching the Friends reunion episode and Matthew Perry saying things like "nobody calls me any more". You could tell he was sad about people not keeping in touch with him, but I guess addiction is hard for both you and those around you.
- Razengan 3y agoI think it was just a sarcastic Chandlery remark.
- elforce002 3y agoMan, him as Chandler was my favorite character in friends. RIP Chandler.
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- godzillabrennus 3y agoCultural milestones make it here.
- defrost 3y agoMainly USofA cultural "milestones" with a lesser sprinkle of other G20 cultures.
- Barrin92 3y agoFriends is huge globally. When I lived in Beijing there was an actual "central perk" replica cafe you could go to, people were crazy about it. What made it so relatable everywhere was probably how cosmopolitan it was. It was very much not an overtly American show like say, Roseanne.
- defrost 3y agoRelative to your particular bubble - I'm Australian, I've travelled to about two thirds of the 190+ countries on the planet thanks to a career in global scale geophysics and mapping and I've yet to see a single episode of Friends .. I doubt I'd recognise Mathew Perry from a photo array. I'm not especially unique in the circles I know either, I swap a lot of TV episodes with others who have home entertainment NAS systems and it's not a series that gets much discussion - it has its fans, sure .. but its not the kind of thing that broadly hits the "must watch" lists.
- TacticalCoder 3y agoWhich percentage of HN is "non USA" / "non other G20"? G20 is 85% of the world's GDP and 2/3rd of the world's entire population. Something like 99% of HN's audience or something has to be from G20 countries.
- sytelus 3y agoI wonder how many Hollywood personalities have not succumbed to addiction.
- throwaway5959 3y agoA lot, you just never hear about them outside of the work they’re doing.
- arp242 3y ago"Famous person lives addiction-free balanced life" is not a headline, other than maybe on The Onion.
- enachtry 3y agoA few years ago I realized that getting older (40+) means having to slowly see almost every symbol you've grown up with becoming completely obsolete and/or dying. It filled me with dread thinking about Chuck Norris, Arnold, Stallone, etc. Seeing the memory of Friends taking hits, first with James Michael Tyler and now with Matthew, is very hard. Even sadder is his fate was probably sealed because he was alone. It was probably a cardiac event that disabled him in the hot tub / pool and he drowned. Could've been unrecoverable anyway but being alone is making pretty sure it is.
- SubiculumCode 3y agoAs my dad said to me once: "All my friends are Dead. Dead. Dead. Except Fred. But he's boring."
- gumby 3y agoMy grandmother offed herself when she reached that point at 97: all her friends were gone and she was in a housing complex for old people (whom she couldn't stand).
- behnamoh 3y agoWhich is why I don't understand the reason behind living in suburban areas where houses are far away from each other. If anything happens to a neighbor, others would probably never find out, and it takes a long time for ambulance to get there. On a side note, I wonder if Apple Watch can detect this kind of events and report that to 911 immediately. Even better, can Apple Watch "predict" such fatal events based on data of millions of users who've had similar incidents? Edit: Maybe the downvoters can say their counter-argument?
- YiraldyGuber 3y agoI'd rather take my chances than live in captivity. Understand that many of us view the sardines crammed into apartments with pity and disbelief.
- jahlove 3y agoHis last post on FB / IG was himself in a hot tub, 6 days ago: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyuv2zDrL0r https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyuv2zDrL0r
- DANmode 3y agoCaptioned: "Oh, so warm water swirling around makes you feel good? I'm Mattman."
- sheepscreek 3y agoHe was certainly my favourite character in the show, and the most relatable. Truly tragic. RIP.
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- sparrish 3y agoOne of the best physical comedy actors of this age. His character and acting in "The Whole 9 Yards" was just great. I crack up every time he hits that sliding glass door. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c75SzjLnKfk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c75SzjLnKfk
- CephalopodMD 3y agoHe was my favorite, and all respect to how others are feeling (edit: including of course OP, you've really done nothing wrong), but I wish I would not have learned this here. Here is the /r/television thread https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/17iqvfk/friends https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/17iqvfk/friends...
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoImagine you heard another person say these words out loud and what it would make you think of them.
- alamortsubite 3y agoI think he must have lived near me in Silver Lake. I occasionally saw him when we were both out for a run. After a while he recognized me, and he'd smile and wave. The hill was steep, and I remember him struggling, but the way he smiled, he clearly had a sense of humor about it. I could see he was determined. Although I never talked to him, from our very limited interaction he seemed like a nice guy. This news makes me sad. RIP.
- superduty 3y agoGiven his history and photos of him from last week, 2 hours of pickleball and then hitting the hot tub, I’ll wager heart attack.
- nparafe 3y agoAll we 80s to early 90s nerds remember "Chandler's new laptop": https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=V6dQxQBHiB0 https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=V6dQxQBHiB0 RIP!
- neverminder 3y agoHis death, while tragic is unfortunately not surprising. Apparently he had massive addiction issues for a long time now. In 2019 he was in a coma from ruptured colon caused by opioid abuse and the doctors gave him 2% chance of making it, so he was living on borrowed time.