{"id":69688,"date":"2023-12-20T14:11:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beststarnews.com\/?p=69688"},"modified":"2023-12-20T14:11:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:11:57","slug":"george-clooney-says-matthew-perry-was-not-happy-on-friends-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beststarnews.com\/celebrities\/george-clooney-says-matthew-perry-was-not-happy-on-friends-set\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney Says Matthew Perry Was Not Happy on &#039;Friends&#039; Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/70\/4by3\/2023\/12\/20\/70c7bafcad1242ffa9655bb9cbe1f68f_md.jpg\"          loading=\"lazy\"          alt=\"Matthew Perry george clooney\"        ><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Clooney<\/strong> is speaking out publicly about the death of <strong>Matthew Perry<\/strong> &#8230; saying the actor wasn&#8217;t happy on the set of his hit sitcom, &#8220;Friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clooney sat for an interview published Tuesday in Deadline to promote his new film, &#8220;The Boys In the Boat,&#8221; &#8212; and he opened up about his relationship with Perry dating back to the &#8217;90s when they first met and played paddle ball together.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/0e\/4by3\/2023\/12\/20\/0e13d830e48a4210a81994e0a4e3ef78_md.jpg\"          loading=\"lazy\"          alt=\"Matthew Perry george clooney\"        ><\/p>\n<p>At the time, Perry was 16 and searching for success, desperately trying to get on a sitcom. Clooney described Perry as a &#8220;great, funny, funny, funny kid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One day, Clooney said he was chatting with Perry, who told him, &#8220;I just want to get on a regular sitcom and I would be the happiest man on earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/44\/4by3\/2023\/11\/03\/44cd62d0d1c047e990cd698e0cf28eda_md.jpg\"          loading=\"lazy\"          alt=\"\"        ><\/p>\n<p>Perry got his wish, scoring a leading role as Chandler Bing on &#8220;Friends,&#8221; which Clooney noted was &#8220;probably one of the best ever&#8221; TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Perry still wasn\u2019t happy, Clooney said, because it &#8220;didn\u2019t bring him joy or happiness or peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back then, the two stars worked on the Warner Brothers lot next to each other &#8212; and Clooney recalled it was &#8220;hard to watch&#8221; Perry because &#8220;we didn&#8217;t know what was going through him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clooney insisted he had no idea Perry was popping 12 Vicodin a day and &#8220;all the stuff he talked about, all that heartbreaking stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clooney added that money and success do not automatically translate into happiness, explaining, &#8220;You have to be happy with yourself and your life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/d9\/4by3\/2023\/10\/30\/d90979f4c8994b1580b2a1a2d4985ee8_md.jpg\"            alt=\"Remembering Matthew Perry\"            loading=\"lazy\"          ><\/p>\n<p>As you know &#8230; Perry <strong>died of &#8220;the acute effects of ketamine,&#8221;<\/strong> a drug used to treat depression and is sometimes taken recreationally. The L.A. Coroner found several contributing factors: drowning, coronary artery disease, and buprenorphine effects. Buprenorphine is used to ween addicts off opioids.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Perry was discovered unresponsive in his hot tub after his personal assistant returned to his L.A. area home after running errands. Perry <strong>was declared dead<\/strong> after first responders tried unsuccessfully to revive him.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/12\/20\/george-clooney-matthew-perry-death-unhappy-friends-show-set\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Clooney is speaking out publicly about the death of Matthew Perry &#8230; saying the actor wasn&#8217;t happy on the set of his hit sitcom, &#8220;Friends.&#8221; Clooney sat for an interview published Tuesday in Deadline to promote his new film, &#8220;The Boys In the Boat,&#8221; &#8212; and he opened up about his relationship with Perry dating back to the &#8217;90s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>George Clooney Says Matthew Perry Was Not Happy on &#039;Friends&#039; 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