Matthew Perry Laid to Rest at Private Funeral: Report 

Saying goodbye to their good friend.

Matthew Perry was laid to relaxation at a personal funeral on Friday, November, 3, in accordance to a number of shops. The service was reportedly held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills neighborhood, close to the Warner Bros. Studios lot the place Friends was filmed.

Perry’s former castmates Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer have been reportedly in attendance, per TMZ, together with Perry’s mom, Suzanne Morrison, his father, John Bennett Perry, and his stepfather, Keith Morrison.

The funeral comes practically one week after Matthew’s sudden loss of life at the age of 54 on Saturday, October 28. The actor was discovered “unconscious in a stand-alone jacuzzi” by legislation enforcement officers in his Pacific Palisades dwelling, with an announcement from the Los Angeles Fire Department on Monday, October 30, confirming that he had been “deceased prior to the first responder arrival.” His official explanation for loss of life has but to be confirmed pending a toxicology report.

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It was introduced earlier on Friday that Matthew’s legacy will stay on via the Matthew Perry Foundation, which can assist these “struggling with the disease of addiction.” The charity is already up and operating and is accepting donations, and might be “guided by his own words and experiences and driven by his passion for making a difference in as many lives as possible.”

Thoughout his life, Matthew didn’t draw back from discussing his personal habit points, which he detailed in his 2022 memoir, Friends Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. However, Matthew — who portrayed the witty Chandler Bing on Friends for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 — was vocal about wanting to be remembered for greater than his position on the hit sitcom.

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 “When I die, as far as my so-called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people,” he stated on a November 2022 episode of the “Q with Tom Power” podcast. “I know it won’t happen, but it would be nice.”

He continued: “The best thing about me, bar none, is that if an alcoholic or drug addict comes up to me and says, ‘Will you help me?’ I can say yes and follow up and do it. When I die, I don’t want Friends to be the first thing that’s mentioned. I want that to be the first thing that’s mentioned, and I’m going to live the rest of my life proving that.”

Perry might not have wished for Friends to be his sole legacy, but it surely actually was a big a part of life — particularly within the bond he made with costars. The forged paid tribute to their longtime good friend on Monday.

“We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew. We were more than just cast mates. We are a family,” Aniston, 54, Cox, 59, Kudrow, 60, LeBlanc, 56, and Schwimmer, 57, advised Us Weekly in a joint assertion on Monday. “There is so much to say, but right now we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss.”

Earlier this week, Jim Burrows, who directed 15 episodes of Friends, shared that the ladies within the forged have been taking Perry’s loss of life significantly laborious. “I had texted the girls the day we found out,” he shared on the Thursday, November 2, episode of the Today present. “They were destroyed. It’s a brother dying.”