(Photo Credit: Mike Windle\/Getty Images for MPTF)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHe was a kid and all he would say to us, I mean me, Richard Kind, and Grant Heslov,\u201d Clooney recalled.<\/p>\n
What Perry would say \u201cwas, \u2018I just want to get on a sitcom, man.’\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Clooney, Perry expressed: \u201c\u2018I just want to get on a regular sitcom and I would be the happiest man on earth.’\u201d<\/p>\nMatthew Perry attends Phoenix House\u2019s 12th Annual Triumph For Teens Awards Gala at the Montage Beverly Hills on June 15, 2015. (Photo Credit: Jason Kempin\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cAnd he got on probably one of the best ever,\u201d Clooney stated. Certainly not the most high quality sitcom, but absolutely one of the most famous and iconic.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wasn\u2019t happy,\u201d he then acknowledged. \u201cIt didn\u2019t bring him joy or happiness or peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clooney recalled working side by side with Perry regularly for many years without knowing \u201cwhat was going through him.\u201d<\/p>\nMatthew Perry attends the CBS, CW, Showtime Summer TCA Party at Pacific Design Center on August 10, 2016. (Photo Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFor many of us, we think of Clooney as someone who was sort of \u201calways\u201d around. Often as a guy our moms thought was hot. But he\u2019s a real person whose career has had ups and downs. Mostly ups.<\/p>\n
In the \u201990s, Clooney was an ER <\/em>regular at the same time that Perry starred on Friends<\/em>. These two shows really embodied a lot of what it meant to live (as an adult) in the \u201990s.<\/p>\n\u201cWe just knew that he wasn\u2019t happy and I had no idea he was doing what, 12 Vicodin a day,\u201d Clooney remarked. \u201cAnd all the stuff he talked about, all that heartbreaking stuff.\u201d<\/p>\nGeorge Clooney and Amal Clooney attend the American Film Institute\u2019s 46th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to George Clooney at Dolby Theatre on June 7, 2018. (Photo Credit: Rich Fury\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cAnd it also just tells you that success and money and all those things, it doesn\u2019t just automatically bring you happiness,\u201d Clooney pointed out.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to be happy with yourself and your life,\u201d he correctly affirmed.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s true that money solves a lot of, perhaps even most of, life\u2019s problems in an instant. Other things, it just makes easier. And there are a few things where even a true fortune can only, at best, provide you with protection from the fallout of your struggles.<\/p>\nMatthew Perry attends \u201cThe Circle\u201d Premiere at the BMCC Tribeca PAC on April 26, 2017. (Photo Credit: Theo Wargo\/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI knew Matt when he was 16 years old,\u201d Clooney reminded the world. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe used to play paddle tennis together,\u201d he specified. \u201cHe\u2019s about 10 years younger than me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thinking back, Clooney described: \u201cHe was a great, funny, funny, funny kid.\u201d<\/p>\nMatthew Perry attends the GQ Men of the Year Party 2022 at The West Hollywood EDITION on November 17, 2022. (Photo Credit: Phillip Faraone\/Getty Images for GQ)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPerry passed away at 54 in late October. He was deceased in the pool of his Hollywood mansion.<\/p>\n
Perry had many substances in his home and in his system. He had been taking ketamine, which doctors believe was recreational (not to be confused with his therapeutic ketamine treatments from a few years ago) and buprenorphine, which assists with opioid addiction.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, he partook of a lethal quantity of both. Our hearts go out to his loved ones. We all wish that he had gotten to lead a happy and full life.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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