The father of actor Matthew Perry who passed away earlier today has been seen arriving at the actor’s home.
John Bennett Perry, 82, was seen arriving at the home where first responders were called to earlier today.
Sources said he was found in a jacuzzi at the home but that no drugs were discovered at the scene – and there was no indication of foul play.
Perry rose to fame in his role as ‘Chandler Bing’ on the hit 90s sitcom Friends, which ran for 10 seasons.
His father John had also starred in 1998 Friends episode The One With Rachel’s New Dress, as the Mr Burgin – the father of Jennifer Aniston’s character Rachel’s boyfriend Joshua Burgin, played by Tate Donovan.
Just the other week Perry delighted fans by sharing a social media post of him and his father.
Sources said he was found in a jacuzzi at the home but that no drugs were discovered at the scene – and there was no indication of foul play
John Bennett Perry was seen arriving at the home where first responders were called to earlier today
Just the other week Perry delighted fans by sharing a social media post of him and his father, seen here
As well as his cameo in Friends, John was well-known for starring as ‘The Sailor’ in commercials for Old Spice during the 70s and 80s.
Matthew spoke candidly about his relationship with his father in his memoir Friends, Lovers, and The Big Terrible Thing, which was released last year, as he detailed his dad leaving after his split from his mother when Matthew was a child.
Their long-distance relationship meant Matthew mainly saw his father on TV, as he revealed: ‘That was mostly the way that I saw my father when I was young…
‘On TV shows, and you know, getting shot through a door on Mannix, or something like that. That’s my Dad.’
In his book, the Friends star laid bare the height of his terrible drug and alcohol addiction battle which nearly cost him his life. He revealed that his colon ruptured as a result of his opioid addiction when he was 49.
Doctors gave him only a two percent chance of survival and he was in a coma for two weeks followed by months more in the hospital.
John had starred in 1998 Friends episode The One With Rachel’s New Dress, as the Mr Burgin – the father of Jennifer Aniston ‘s character Rachel’s boyfriend Joshua Burgin, played by Tate Donovan
Matthew starred as Chandler Bing in Friends alongside David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt le Blanc (left-right) from 1995 to 2004
Perry required 14 surgeries to help repair all of the abdominal damage, and he admitted to having gone to rehab 15 times over the years in hopes of kicking his drug addiction.
At one point during his Friends career, he admits he was taking 55 Vicodin a day and was down to 128 pounds but yet he ‘didn’t know how to stop.’
He even revealed he would go to real estate open houses – not because he was interested in buying property but to see if he could steal drugs from medicine cabinets.
