George Clooney recently opened up about his Friends co-star Matthew Perry’s death and made a heartbreaking revelation while doing so.
In a recent interview with Deadline, the 62 year-old actor reminisced about the time he played paddle tennis with Matthew.
“I knew Matt when he was 16 years old. He is ten years younger than I am. He remembered, “And he was a great, funny, funny, funny kid.”
“He would say to me, Richard Kind, and Grant Heslov, ‘I just want to get on a sitcom,'” George recalled of the comic star’s ultimate goal in life. I would be the happiest man alive if I could just get on a regular sitcom. And it was arguably his best performance to date.”
“We were at Warner Brothers and it was hard to watch because we didn’t know what was going through him. We just knew that he wasn’t happy and I had no idea what he was doing, 12 Vicodin a day and all the heartbreaking stuff he talked about,” George shared.
The only thing, he said, that people should take away from Matthew’s passing is that having money will not make you happy; instead, you must be content with who you are and the life you lead.
On October 28, Matthew died at the age of 54 after his assistant found him in his LA mansion’s jacuzzi.
The actor, who fought addiction for a considerable period of time, died as a result of the acute side effects of ketamine infusion therapy, according to a recent autopsy report.
