Jennifer Aniston has revealed the heartwarming ways she plans to honour her late friend and co-star, Matthew Perry.
The pair starred alongside each other on the hit sitcom ‘Friends’ from 1994 until 2004 with David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, and Matt LeBlanc.
Perry sadly passed away last month on October 28th after an apparent drowning.
In the wake of his death, Aniston has already begun honouring his legacy by asking her fans to support ‘The Matthew Perry Foundation‘.
Following the actor’s death, the organisation was founded on November 3rd to continue Perry’s work of helping others who face struggles with addiction.
On ‘Giving Tuesday’, a day dedicated to giving back to the community, Jennifer asked followers of her Instagram account to show support for the foundation.
“For #GivingTuesday please join me and Matty’s family in supporting his foundation—which is working to help those suffering with addiction.
“He would have been grateful for the love.”
The pair played on-screen friends, Chandler Bing and Rachel Green, but their friendship also extended off-screen.
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In Aniston’s tribute post, she reflected on the years spent together that were full of ‘laughter’ with her ‘chosen family’.
“Oh boy this one has cut deep…” she began.
“Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before.
“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.
“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,” the actress continued.
“And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh. And laugh hard. In the last couple weeks, I’ve been pouring over our texts to one another. Laughing and crying then laughing again. I’ll keep them forever and ever. I found one text that he sent me out of nowhere one day. It says it all.”
“Matty, I love you so much and I know you are now completely at peace and out of any pain. I talk to you every day… sometimes I can almost hear you saying ‘could you BE any crazier?’
“Rest little brother,” Jennifer concluded. “You always made my day…”
