Best Friend died of addiction: creators react

TODAY, 11/1/23; CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

EXCLUSIVE: Friends creators speak out on [drug addict] Matthew "Chandler" Perry’s death: ‘Utter shock’

(TODAY) In a TODAY exclusive, Friends creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane speak out about the death of severely drug addicted actor Matthew "Chandler Bing" Perry to remember his life and legacy. Kauffman spoke to Perry two weeks before his death and says, “He was in a really good place, which is why this seems so unfair.” Crane saw him in the past and remembers him as being "so alive" but is now, strangely, somehow dead. #matthewperry #celebrity #friends

• Matthew Perry looks bloated, tired amid bizarre behavior and career slump (radaronline.com)

Spent 7 to 9 million dollars to get sober, but doctor-prescribed opioids brought him down

What? Drugs? (radaronline.com)

Breaking news is that what killed Matthew Perry was getting into a hot tub on Suboxone, a replacement for opioids. In an effort to ease his addiction -- which he had spent millions trying to sober up from -- he was on a pharmaceutical, some of the deadliest drugs available, so deadly they need a prescription. Worth an estimated $120,000,000 and out on a date with a model 29 years younger than him, he sinks into the jacuzzi and never comes up. What an awakening in the afterlife, hungry ghosts laughing and prodding him, or angelic voices and devas escorting him "home" to a heavenly abode or immediately finding himself in another womb, human or animal, it had to be illuminating to the Friends star.

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