Jennifer Aniston reflects on Matthew Perry’s death: ‘This cuts deep’
American actress Jennifer Aniston has penned a sweet tribute to her former co-star, the late Matthew Perry.
For the first time since actor Matthew Perry died from an apparent drowning accident on the 28 October, actress Jennifer Aniston has opened up about her former Friends co-star’s untimely death.
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JENNIFER ANISTON PENS A SWEET TRIBUTE TO MATTHEW PERRY
In a post to Instagram Jennifer penned a sweet touching tribute honouring Matthew Perry’s life as well as the friendship she formed with him throughout the years. The actress featured a picture herself together with Perry, where they appear to be on set together.
Jennifer starts out by saying: “Oh boy this one has cut deep … Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before”.
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She continued: “We all experience loss at some point in our lives. Loss of life or loss of love. Being able to really SIT in this grief allows you to feel the moments of joy and gratitude for having loved someone that deep. And we loved him deeply. He was such a part of our DNA”.
Additionally, she included a scene of the duo during a series finale of Friends where Jennifer Aniston’s character Rachel Green and Matthew Perry’s character Chandler Bing express their love for one another. She also added a screenshot of a conversation between the two of them where Matthew told Jennifer how he loved making her laugh.
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‘YOU ALWAYS MADE MY DAY’
Jennifer Aniston continued by reflecting on Matthew’s ability to “make people laugh”.
“We were always the 6 of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be. For Matty, he KNEW he loved to make people laugh”, Aniston shared.
Jennifer continued: “As he said himself, if he didn’t hear the ‘laugh’ he thought he was going to die. His life literally depended on it. And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh. And laugh hard. In the last couple weeks, I’ve been poring over our texts to one another. Laughing and crying then laughing again. I’ll keep them forever and ever. I found one text that he sent me out of nowhere one day. It says it all”.
“Matty, I love you so much and I know you are now completely at peace and out of any pain. I talk to you every day… sometimes I can almost hear you saying ‘could you BE any crazier?’ Rest little brother. You always made my day”, the actress said in closing.
Matthew Perry was laid to rest in a private intimate funeral on the 3 November 2023.