RIP: Matthew Perry, aged 54!

[thewayne]

Bit of a surprise. He was found in his swimming pool, apparently an accidental drowning. I'm guessing that he suffered some form of medical emergency and the drowning was a consequence of that.

While best known for his role in the hugely successful TV series Friends, he did a lot of work outside of that. He also did a huge amount of drugs, which may have contributed to his rather early death. That's one of the risks and consequences of the Hollywood lifestyle: even if you're clean now, the fact that you were a hard user a couple of decades ago can have consequences.

RIP, dude. Lots of your fans will miss you.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/matthew-perry-friends-star-dead-obit-1234865185/

Comments

[fairy69]

not surprising to me, sadly, but what sucks, always, is that this happens after all the years of trying to get help. If you remember the overdose of Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots? And so many others. They try to get better but it's not just the "getting clean from drugs" approach that should be used but going to the root problem of what's up psychologically that is rarely addressed even in rehab.