RIP Matthew Perry

Matthew Perry has sadly joined the list of celebrities with varying levels of depression who passed away in tubs, including Jim Morrison, Bobby Darin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Whitney Houston.

Perry detailed his struggles with mental health in his recent memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. He had battled with alcohol and prescription drugs and claimed he was basically high throughout the Friends days.

Believe it or not, I’ve never been a big Friends fan, although I did enjoy watching several episodes in Thailand, where the show is wildly popular.

Perry, before moving to Los Angeles at 15, was from Ottawa, Canada, and became almost Beatles-famous as Chandler Bing in the 1990s.

Some of his other career highlights included the play he wrote and starred in called The End of Longing and Go On, a one-season TV show in which he played a sports talk radio host. But I probably know him most from frequent appearances in late-night talk shows, where he was often a pretty entertaining interviewee.

And much like me, Perry was obsessed with playing tennis.