According to the L.A. Times, Matthew Perry, the Friends actor who struggled with addiction for many years before to,

during, and following his ten seasons as a member of the cast of one of the most popular comedies on television, passed away.

The paper’s source claimed Perry was found unconscious in his Los Angeles hot pool; the source did not specify the cause of death. Actor 54 was his age.

Perry is best known for playing the smart, sardonic, and catchphrase-obsessed Chandler Bing in the classic sitcom of the 1990s.

From 1994 to 2004, he starred in 234 episodes of the David Crane and Martha Kaufman-created series, for which he received an Emmy nod for his efforts in the ninth season.

(Perry received five Emmy nominations overall; one of them was for his part in the HBO Max Friends reunion special in 2021).

Despite the fact that the six main characters in the series were all humorous, Chandler stood out as the most endearing of them all.

He was a sophisticated, self-aware class clown who could make people laugh with only his distinct tone of voice (‘Could she be more out of my league?’).

Perry calculated that he had spent almost $9 million on sobriety previous year. He claimed to have

undergone fifteen rehab stays and fourteen stomach surgeries as a result of his alcohol and narcotic addiction.

The worst of these occurred when Perry’s colon burst when he was 49 years old. According to Perry,

he was put in a coma for two weeks and needed to use a colostomy bag for the following nine months. In his memoir, Perry stated,

‘The doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live.’ ‘I was placed on an ECMO machine,

which does all of your heart and lung breathing. And we refer to that as a Hail Mary. Nobody makes it out of it.