'Simpsons' star Hank Azaria shared a tribute to late 'Friends' actor and friend Matthew Perry, recalling how Perry helped him with his sobriety.
'Simpsons' star Hank Azaria paid tribute to longtime friend Matthew Perry, crediting Perry for helping him get sober and recalling his sense of humor. 'Matthew Perry said that he wanted to be remembered as someone who helped people get sober, even more than he wanted to be remembered as a very funny, famous Friend. I think he’ll be remembered as both,' Azaria wrote in an opinion piece for The New York Times. 'I know that I will always think of him that way.
It’s very hard to imagine how going into a room like that is somehow going to make you want to stop drinking or make you feel better,' he recalled. 'And he looked at me and said in his Matthew, half-joking, very loving way: ‘It’s something, isn’t it? God is a bunch of drunks together in a room.
Many times I had to beg him to stop because it was physically painful to laugh that hard for that long.' One instance of Perry’s humor at work, according to Azaria, included silly behavior in a public restroom. 'Whenever we went into a public restroom together, I’d beg him — I’d say, ‘Please don’t do it, Matthew.’ He’d say, ‘OK.
Another regular occurrence was visiting McDonald’s drive-thrus together, where Perry would 'ask the person on the other side of the speaker, ‘Do you know what Grimace is?’ After getting a ‘no,’ he would offer, ‘I think it’s a purple shake that has no cup.
The actor concluded that Perry had 'helped so many people' with his honesty and considers himself 'blessed' to experience both Perry’s friendship in real life and the universal feeling many felt watching him on 'Friends.' Perry died Oct. 28 at age 54 from an apparent drowning. He was reportedly found by his assistant in a hot tub at his Pacific Palisades home.
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