Matthew Perry acquired a particular tribute in the course of the In Memoriam section on the 2023 Emmy Awards.
Charlie Puth was joined by The War and Treaty to carry out on Monday, January 15, whereas pictures of the celebrities who died in 2023 flashed throughout the display. The group began out by singing Puth and Wiz Khalifa‘s “See You Again” before transitioning into The Rembrandts’ “I’ll Be There for You.”
Friends followers are very accustomed to the observe, which served because the theme tune for Perry’s hit sitcom all through its whole run from 1994 to 2004. Perry was the final superstar to look within the slideshow, to loud applause from the viewers.
Perry — who performed Chandler Bing on Friends — died on October 28, 2023, on the age of 54 resulting from “acute effects of ketamine.”
“Matthew, it is with a heavy heart I say goodbye. The times we had together are honestly among the favorite times of my life,” Matt LeBlanc, who performed Joey Tribbiani within the NBC sitcom, wrote by way of Instagram in November 2023. “It was an honor to share the stage with you and to call you my friend. I will always smile when I think of you and I’ll never forget you. Never. Spread your wings and fly brother you’re finally free. Much love. And I guess you’re keeping the 20 bucks you owe me.”
Courteney Cox, who performed Chandler’s friend-turned-wife Monica Geller on Friends, mirrored on their friendship in an emotional social media put up.
“I am so grateful for every moment I had with you Matty and I miss you every day,” she wrote by way of Instagram in November 2023. “When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share. For now, here’s one of my favorites.”
Cox, 59, shared a clip from a season 4 episode wherein Monica and Chandler first sleep collectively whereas in London for Ross Geller’s (David Schwimmer) wedding ceremony.
“To give a little backstory, Chandler and Monica were supposed to have a one-night fling in London. But because of the audience’s reaction, it became the beginning of their love story,” she defined on the time. “In this scene, before we started rolling, he whispered a funny line for me to say. He often did things like that. He was funny and he was kind. 🤍🕊️.”
Days after Cox’s put up, fellow costar Jennifer Aniston opened up concerning the love she had for Perry.
“Oh, boy, this one has cut deep,” Aniston, 54, wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before. 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. 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.”
Aniston, who performed Rachel Green on Friends, continued: “For Matty, he KNEW he loved to make people laugh. 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 pouring 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.”
The actress shared candy messages between her and Perry.
“Making you laugh just made my day. It made my day :),” Perry texted Aniston, alongside a photograph of them collectively. She replied, “Awwww the first of THOUSANDS of times …”
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