Matthew Perry released his memoir just one year before his death at 54. Fox News Digital takes a look at some of the biggest revelations from 'Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.'
Matthew Perry died yesterday at his home, Fox News Digital confirmed. He was 54. The actor, best known for starring as Chandler Bing in the beloved sitcom 'Friends,' was found in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home, law enforcement sources confirmed. Though he appeared to have died from drowning, no official cause of death has been released. On Nov.
was given the shot at 11:00 a.m.,' Perry wrote. 'I woke up eleven hours later in a different hospital. Apparently, the propofol had stopped my heart. For five minutes. It wasn’t a heart attack — I didn’t flatline — but nothing had been beating… I was told that some beefy Swiss guy really didn’t want the guy from ‘Friends’ dying on his table and did CPR on me for the full five minutes, beating and pounding my chest.
When he was 15, he moved from his mother's home in Canada to live with his father, John Bennett Perry, in Los Angeles. His father, he alleged, was also an alcoholic, and while living with him he got to a point where he was drinking six vodka tonics every night, something he called 'the best part of my day.' It wasn't until filming 1997's 'Fools Rush In' that he developed an addiction to painkillers.
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