Julia Roberts marked Perry's first high-profile girlfriend, a relationship that began while shooting an episode of Friends. In his memoir, the actor told the story of how Roberts signed up to guest star on the hit sitcom, noting that she was eager to be part of his character's storyline.
Perry did not have children of his own, however, he was very open to the idea of becoming a father. "I think I'd be great. I really do," he said of the potential of welcoming children during an October 2022 interview with People.
Blair, who briefly dated Perry during his stint as Chandler Bing on the long-running NBC series, said the pair had shared a close bond throughout the years. “He was someone that really was [my friend], we were actively friends, you know, for 30 years,” she shared.
Matthew Perry opened up about lifelong addiction struggle to help others. Onscreen, Matthew Perry was the charming, heartwarming and hilarious Chandler Bing whom America came to adore. But behind the camera, he struggled with a much darker reality of crippling alcohol and opioid addiction and multiple stints in rehab.
"He was someone that really was [my friend], we were actively friends, you know, for 30 years," Blair said, recalling her long bond with the late actor. "We dated years ago and he really was such a comic genius in his writing and his love and his ability to care for his friends."
Over the course of his 30-plus years in the entertainment industry, Perry explored several romantic relationships, including high-profile ones such as Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. Concurrently, the actor endured a tumultuous time in the spotlight.
Despite falling in love and getting married on the NBC sitcom, Perry and Cox's real-world relationship was always platonic. In fact, Perry and Cox gave fans several glimpses at their friendship by reuniting on camera multiple times after Friends ended in 2004.
He recalled asking Aniston out on a date, and she turned him down and suggested that they just be friends. However, that didn't stop him from admiring her on set. "'I was like, 'Is three seconds too long?' " he said about the moments he would have on set with Aniston.
While speaking to Access, the three men- David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc- addressed why they had never dated in real life. "There was a rule that we had [that] was really important to the six of us that we kept a friendship, that we were friends," explained Perry.
In it, the 53-year-old actor reveals that while playing Chandler Bing in Friends from 1994 to 2004, his weight fluctuated between 128 and 225 pounds due to alcoholism and addiction. “You can track the trajectory for my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season,” Perry writes.
Did Matthew Perry have a crush on Jennifer or Courtney?
Matthew Perry says that he had crushes on "Friends" costars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow, which made working on the sitcom more challenging. "How can you not have a crush on Jenny, and Courteney, and Lisa?" Perry said in a new interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer.
Though he initially wrote the part for himself, Perry realised the character was 20 years younger than him, and instead sent it to Efron, who declined.
Perry also admitted that his heart was broken when he faced rejection after asking her out on a date. In his autobiography, 'Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir', the late actor said that he had known Aniston for three years before they started filming Friends, through “mutual” pals.
In the wake of Matthew Perry's death on Saturday, at age 54, fans, friends and family were left shocked and in mourning. Matthew was briefly engaged but never married, nor had any children. He is survived by his mother, Suzanne Marie Morrison, and his father, John Bennett Perry, as well as several half-siblings.
(Perry's mom Suzanne Perry and dad John Bennett Perry were married from 1968 to 1970. Following her split from the George of the Jungle actor, she married Morrison in 1981 and they welcomed kids Caitlin, Emily, Willy and Madeleine.)
Perry never got married to any of his partners, but he did come close to walking down the aisle once. He began dating literary manager Molly Hurwitz in 2018. The pair got engaged in November 2020 but called off their engagement in June 2021.
“My weight varied between 9st 2lb (58kg) and 16st 1lb (102kg) during the Friends years.” He said his thin frame - most notable at the beginning of season seven - was due to the opioids, a drug that can suppress a user's appetite and cause vomiting.
Most of Perry's upbringing was in Ottawa, Canada, but he said he was a "latchkey kid" because his mother's job "just meant I spent a great deal of time alone". "Accordingly I learned to be funny - pratfalls, quick one liners, you know the drill - because I had to be," he said.
