Former NBC president Warren Littlefield recalled how Matthew Perry’s ‘famous wit and charm’ saved the network's 1996 upfronts
Former NBC president Warren Littlefield recalled how the late Matthew Perry saved the network during its 1996 upfronts.
“Forget our new fall programs, that was the most memorably entertaining part of the presentation,” Littlefield continued. “No one asked Matthew to do that job — he just saw what was unfolding and jumped in. That was Matthew.” News broke on Saturday, October 28, that Perry had died at the age of 54. According to multiple reports, local law enforcement officers responded to a cardiac arrest call at Perry’s Los Angeles home. The county’s medical examiner confirmed one day later that Perry, who was found unresponsive in his jacuzzi tub, had died on the scene. A cause of death has not been revealed.
Perry was vocal about this decades-long battle with alcohol and drug addiction — which he detailed in his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. At his lowest point, the Emmy winner revealed he was taking 55 Vicodin a day and weighed just 128 pounds. “I didn’t know how to stop,” he wrote. “The disease and the addiction is progressive, so it gets worse and worse as you grow older.
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