Lauren Graham is remembering her late pal, Matthew Perry, and sharing the character of their relationship. The 57-year-old actress spoke concerning the late Associates star whereas on tour for her guide of essays, Have I Instructed You This Already?
Graham spoke on the Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C., the place she talked overtly about Perry, calling him a “friend and a constant,” per Deadline.
“While he was not technically ever a boyfriend, he was an almost in my life,” Graham stated of Perry.
The actress, maybe finest identified for enjoying Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Women, stated that their friendship went via phases and that Perry had “just come back into my life last year.”
Graham added that Perry gifted her a pickleball set for her birthday, saying, “He’s like really into tennis and pickleball, with a card that said, ‘Be older.'” she stated.
Graham referred to as Perry’s loss of life “a terrible loss,” including, “It’s still really hard to believe.”
Graham and Perry appeared within the 2008 movie Birds of America collectively in addition to Aaron Sorkin’s present Studio 60 on the Sundown Strip in 2006, the short-lived comedy collection Go On in 2012 and The Odd Couple in 2014.
When it comes to Graham’s romantic life, she had a prolonged relationship together with her Parenthood co-star, Peter Krause, from 2010 to 2021.
As for Perry, he was linked over time to Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow and Yasmine Bleeth.
Perry died on Oct. 28 at his dwelling in Los Angeles from acute results of ketamine, in keeping with his post-mortem. He was 54.
ET spoke along with his Associates co-star, Jennifer Aniston, in January on the Critics Selection Awards concerning the ways in which followers might honor the late actor.
“Celebrate him,” she advised ET with a smile.
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