Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends’ TV mom: He had such ‘honesty’ about his ‘addiction and recovery’

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played Matthew Perry’s mother, Nora Tyler Bing, on “Friends,” is still feeling the impact of his death — more than a month later.Perry died Oct.

28 at the age of 54. His body was discovered in the hot tub of his LA home. An official cause of death has yet to be determined.“I continue to get messages on Instagram and Twitter [now X] going back to when I first posted right after Matthew passed,” Fairchild, 73, told The Post. “That’s the interesting thing about our business — how you can touch other people’s lives.”Fairchild appeared in five episodes of “Friends” as the divorced, flamboyant Nora, a successful, best-selling author of erotic novels who wasn’t the best mother to Chandler — but thinks she is; she once tried to seduce Ross (David Schwimmer) in a long line of questionable behavior that embarrassed her son.“People wanted to date Matthew, to be his mother, and since I played his mother I’ve been getting a lot of condolences,” Fairchild said. “It’s been very touching to get so many responses to his death, even now.”Fairchild said she was reminded on the very day this interview was conducted just how much the impact of Perry’s death still resonated.“I did a Cameo for a guy whose girlfriend is still crying every day over Matthew,” she said. “He touched people’s lives that much and in such a great way and they identified with him and loved him … in his honesty about his addiction and recovery and what he tried to do to help others — not only being wonderfully funny and charming.” Perry struggled with substance abuse for years, and estimated that he spent $9 million to get sober.