The 36-year-old got a little choked up remembering Perry as he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. "I also want to mention someone that's not here today and that's Matthew Perry, who was so kind and generous with me as we worked on 17 Again," Efron said during his speech.
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During his speech, Efron credited Perry for ushering him toward the next level in his career. “It really did propel me and motivate me, in so many ways,” he said. “It really pushed me into the next chapter of my career and for that, thank you so much, Matthew. Thinking about you a lot today.”
High School Musical alum Zac Efron paid tribute to late Friends actor Matthew Perry while accepting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Dec. 11. Zac Efron will always be all in this together with Matthew Perry. While accepting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Dec.
At the time of Perry's death, he had over $1 million in personal property in addition to what was already in his living trust, according to the documents filed by Ferguson on March 8. The filing noted that Perry never married and did not have any children.
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While Matthew Perry never married, he did have a three-year relationship with his ex-fiancée Molly Hurwitz. The Friends star proposed to Hurwitz in November 2020 after two years of dating.
The trust beneficiaries are his father, John Perry, and mother, Suzanne Morrison. His half-sister Caitlin Morrison and ex-girlfriend, Rachel Dunn, are also beneficiaries. He did not have children. Perry's will contained specific instructions that any children he had would not inherit from his estate.
Matthew Perry had revealed to journalist Diane Sawyer that he appeared scarily thin in the finale of season three (The One At The Beach) because back then he was taking as many as 55 Vicodin a day!
His net worth stood at around $120 million at the time of his death, and he was still actively earning between $10 and $20 million from Friends annually.
Thank you for the time I got to have with you, Matthew.” The 'Friends' stars previously issued a group statement remembering Perry on Oct. 30, two days after his death, saying they were “devastated by the loss of Matthew.”
Zac Efron and Matthew Perry co-starred in the 2009 comedy movie 17 Again, which saw Efron play a younger version of Perry's character after he is transformed by a janitor into his 17 year-old self.
Schwimmer wrote touchingly of his late friend, and ended his post with a version of Chandler's quasi-catchphrase: "Matty, Thank you for ten incredible years of laughter and creativity. I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery.
Efron was on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2008 at number 92, with estimated earnings of $5.8 million from June 2007 to June 2008. In April 2009, his personal wealth equaled about $10 million. In May 2015, Efron's net worth was $18 million. In March 2014, Efron engaged in a fight with a homeless man on Skid Row.
But behind the scenes, addiction was ruining his life. At his lowest point, he was taking 55 Vicodin a day and weighed just 128 pounds. “I didn't know how to stop,” he said.
The cast of Friends all have an insane net worth thanks to the show, and Matthew had one of the largest, making his sudden death all the more tragic. At the top of the list is Jennifer Aniston with a net worth of about $320 million according to Cosmopolitan.
Jennifer Aniston arguably became the most famous member of the Friends troupe. Her role as Rachel Green kicked off her acting career, and she's not looked back, appearing in blockbuster hits like 2004's Along Came Polly, the 2008 tearjerker Marley and Me, and Horrible Bosses in 2011.
Speaking about his crush, Perry revealed that he was “immediately taken by her.” However, Aniston did not reciprocate his feelings. “I got the sense she was intrigued, too—maybe it was going to be something,” he wrote in his memoir.
Perry, 53, shares that by the end of the third season of the hit NBC sitcom, on which he played Chandler Bing, he was trying to obtain 55 Vicodin a day — otherwise he'd get “so sick”. The Three to Tango star attributes his extremely thin frame to his opioid addiction, as the drugs suppress appetite and cause vomiting.
His mother, Suzanne Jane Louise Morrison (née Langford), is a Canadian journalist. She was a press secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Perry's father, John Bennett Perry, is an American actor and model. Perry was a citizen of both the United States and Canada.
“During filming, I fell madly in love with Valerie Bertinelli,” Perry acknowledged in his book, adding that he was “obsessed” with her. “In the early 1990s, there was no one more attractive than Valerie.
Molly had kind words to share after hearing the news that Matthew had been found dead in his hot tub on Saturday. "He would have cherished the world discussing his immense talent, and indeed, he was exceptionally talented," Molly began, adding: "Our mutual respect for humor was a bond between us."
