Matthew Perry has been laid to rest at a private funeral attended by close family and friends, including his costars from the iconic sitcom Friends.
The intimate memorial was reportedly held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, near the Warner Bros. Studios lot where Friends was filmed.
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Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer were all at the funeral which comes nearly a week after the beloved actor’s apparent drowning.
Perry — who played Chandler Bing during Friends’ 10-season run — was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his LA home on October 28, with first responders later declaring him dead at the scene after a “rapid medical assessment.”
His cause of death has been deferred pending a toxicology report, authorities previously said. Results from an initial autopsy were inconclusive and further investigation has been petitioned.
“We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew,” Perry’s Friends cast mates said in a joint statement on October 30.
“We were more than just cast mates. We are a family.
“There is so much to say, but right now, we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss.”
Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, LeBlanc and Schwimmer added that they “will say more, as and when we are able.”
“For now, our thoughts and our love are with Matty’s family, his friends, and everyone who loved him around the world.”
‘They were destroyed’
One Friends director, who directed more than a dozen episodes across the sitcom’s 10-year run, said he was talking with Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow when news of Perry’s death broke.
“I had texted the girls the day we found out,” he told US Today.
“They were destroyed. It’s a brother dying.”
Perry wrote in his memoir Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible Thing that the six of them were “like penguins”
“Penguins, in nature, when one is sick, or when one is very injured, the other penguins surround it and prop it up,” the late actor wrote.
“They walk around it until that penguin can walk on its own. That’s kind of what the cast did for me,” he said of his struggle with addiction.
Perry spoke of his own legacy in an interview on the Q With Tom Power podcast explaining, “The best thing about me, bar none, is that if somebody comes to me and says, ‘I can’t stop drinking, can you help me?’ I can say ‘Yes’ and follow up and do it.
“When I die, I don’t want Friends to be the first thing that’s mentioned.
“I want (helping people) to be the first thing that’s mentioned, and I’m gonna live the rest of my life proving that.”
– With Gabrielle Chung, NBC
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