Friends' creator says fans should remember Matthew Perry for 'joy', not how he died
Matthew Perry
Actor Matthew Perry has left an irreplaceable legacy behind him, that will be cherished for decades to come. Recently, the arrest made on the actor's accidental death caused by the Ketamine overdose has thrown a light on Perry's struggle with alcohol and drug addiction.
Recently, Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman talked about her bond with the late star, as she urged everyone to remember him for his legacy, not for his death.
During her interview with U.K.'s The Times, Kauffman said, "He is the one I had the most contact with. About two weeks before [he died] he and I were FaceTiming and he seemed really good."
Talking about howPerry should be remembered by his fans, Kauffman said, "Two things come to mind [about how to celebrate him]: One of them is to donate to drug treatment centers — let's fight the disease. And the second way is to watch Friends and remember him not as a man who died like that but as a man who was hilariously funny and brought joy to everybody."
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Producer David Crane, the other creator of the show, talked about Perry's struggle with addiction and when he came to know about, ''By the time we became aware of it, we were already a family on a lot of levels," he said. "There was a point where we said to him: 'Do you want to stop [being in the show]?' And he was adamantly like: 'No, this is really important to me.''
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Perry, who had a long history of substance abuse, was found dead in the hot tub of his luxury Los Angeles home on October 28. In December, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office revealed that the cause of his death was "the acute effects of ketamine,"
Earlier this week, five people were arrested in connection with Perry's death: doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez; Perry's assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa; the actor's acquaintance Erik Fleming; and Jasveen Sangha aka the Ketamine Queen, an alleged drug dealer.
