Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry in 1995.Photo:Ron Davis/Getty
Ron Davis/Getty
Jennifer Anistonis encouraging fans to keepMatthew Perry’s memory alive.
On Sunday,The Morning Showactress attended the2024 Critics' Choice Awardsin Santa Monica, California, where she opened up about the death of her lateFriendscostar.
Drowning, coronary artery disease and buprenorphine effects (a medication used to treat opioid use disorder) were also listed as contributing factors in his death, which was ruled accidental.
Jennifer Aniston at the 2024 Critics' Choice Awards.Amy Sussman/WireImage
Amy Sussman/WireImage
Back in November, Anistonencouraged her followersonline to contribute to theMatthew Perry Foundation, writing on Giving Tuesday that Perry “would have been grateful for the love 🥰.”
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In a new interview withVarietyin December, Aniston opened up on how she hoped Perry would be remembered. “He was happy,” she said. “I miss him dearly. We all do. Boy, he made us laugh really hard.”
She went on to call thecountless tributesthat poured in following his death “so beautiful.”
“I hope he can know that he was loved in a way he never thought he was,” the actress told the outlet.
When Anistonbroke her silence about the loss ofPerry on Nov. 15, she shared one of her final text messages from the actor and remembered how he made everyone “laugh hard.”
“We all experience loss at some point in our lives. Loss of life or loss of love. Being able to really SIT in this grief allows you to feel the moments of joy and gratitude for having loved someone that deep. And we loved him deeply. He was such a part of our DNA.”
“We were always the 6 of us,” she continued. “This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be. For Matty, he KNEW he loved to make people laugh. As he said himself, if he didn’t hear the ‘laugh’ he thought he was going to die. His life literally depended on it. And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh. And laugh hard.”
Aniston went on to say that she had been looking back on the many text message conversations she and Perry had exchanged. “Laughing and crying then laughing again. I’ll keep them forever and ever.”
source: people.com
