Matthew Perry’s ex Lizzy Caplan attends Emmys with husband as ‘Friends’ star is honored

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Emmy Awards Monday night, as the late “Friends” actor was honored during the show’s In Memoriam segment. He died in late October at age 54.Caplan, who was nominated for Best Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or TV Movie for her role in “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” strutted the red carpet in a black lace gown while holding hands with her husband, Tom Riley, 42.

The actress, who dated Perry from 2006 to 2012, ultimately lost her category to “Beef” star Ali Wong. Caplan met the “Friends” star in 2005 at her 23rd birthday party, which Perry, then 36, had reportedly crashed. “In fact, I knew she was twenty-three because I’d crashed her twenty-third birthday party,” the “Fools Rush In” star later wrote in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir,” despite never mentioning Caplan by name. “Our subsequent initial make-out session was in the back of a really messy Toyota (to think I’d spent all that money on fancy cars and here I was in the backseat of a tan Corolla),” Perry recalled. “When we were done, I said, ‘I’m gettin out of the car now.

Mostly because I’m thirty-six.’” According to the “Whole Nine Yards” actor, both he and the “Mean Girls” actress continued to frequent each other’s company for nearly two years all the while engaging in “record-breaking amounts of sexual intercourse, with no strings attached, both of us following the friends-with-benefits rule to a tee.”Perry stated in his memoir: “We never went to dinner, we never talked about each other’s families.

We never discussed what went on in each other’s lives regarding other people.” Finally, Caplan and Perry decided to make their relationship official.