Matthew Perry’s Optimistic State of Thoughts Earlier than Dying, Confirms Coach

Matthew Perry’s pickleball coach stated the late actor was in “good spirits” simply weeks earlier than his surprising dying.

“Pickleball, I believe, was an outlet for him,” Pickleball coach Matt Manasse advised Leisure Tonight in an interview on Sunday, October 29. “It was one thing that he grew to become obsessive about, and that was his new wholesome dependancy, and he cherished it.”

Earlier than his tragic dying, Perry performed pickleball about 4 to 5 occasions per week and “appeared like he was in a extremely good place and a contented place,” Manasse advised the outlet.

“I’m simply glad that, you understand, if something, he had quite a lot of enjoyable and pleasure being on a pickleball courtroom round people who he loved, as a result of he gave us a lot pleasure,” Manasse stated.

Perry rose to stardom whereas filming the enduring NBC sitcom Pals, the place he performed Chandler Bing from 1994 to 2004. He starred alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer.

Manasse stated Perry’s star high quality was one thing “most individuals don’t have.”

“He would convey different folks to the courtroom generally that have been going by means of related issues and attempt to use pickleball to assist them as properly,” Manasse stated. “He actually had his coronary heart at all times open and would at all times attempt to make everybody snigger, too.”

On Saturday, October 28, Perry was discovered lifeless in a jacuzzi at a house in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Coroner’s workplace confirmed his dying on Sunday, and listed the investigation as ongoing. He was 54.

Perry had been open about his struggles with substance abuse throughout his life. After a jet ski accident in 1997, he grew to become hooked on Vicodin, which finally led to his alcohol abuse.

He went to rehab 15 occasions over time. In his candid 2022 guide, Pals, Lovers & The Massive Horrible Factor, Perry revealed he was solely sober throughout season 9 of Pals.

“You’ll be able to observe the trajectory of my dependancy if you happen to gauge my weight from season to season — after I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; after I’m skinny, it’s drugs. When I’ve a goatee, it’s a lot of drugs,” he wrote on the time. “[Compare] how I look between the ultimate episode of season 6 and the primary of season 7. I’m carrying the identical garments within the closing episode of 6 and the primary of seven [it’s supposed to be the same night], however I should have misplaced fifty kilos within the low season.”