Matthew Perry Was Happy And Sober Before His Death, ‘Friends’ Co-Creator Marta Kauffman Tells Hoda Kotb: “He Was In A Really Good Place”
deadline.comFriends co-creator Marta Kauffman spoke to actor Mathew Perry just two weeks before his Oct. 28 death at 54, and was pleased with what she heard. “It was great,” Kauffman said in an exclusive Today show interview with Hoda Kotb that aired this morning. “He was happy, and chipper.
He didn’t seem weighed down by anything. He was in a really good place, which is why this seems so unfair.” Watch the interview below. “I was just in utter shock,” Kauffman said about hearing the news of Perry’s death. “My first impulse was to text him, honestly.
And then deep sadness. It’s hard to grasp. You know, one minute he’s here and happy, and then poof. And doing good in the world.
Really doing good in the world.” Although a cause of death has not been revealed and toxicology reports are pending, Perry apparently drowned in a hot tub at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.
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