Gilmore Women alum Lauren Graham hosted a Q&A Friday throughout her Have I Advised You This Already? e-book tour. Chatting with an viewers on the Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C., the dialogue turned to her friendship with the late Matthew Perry.
“It’s nonetheless actually laborious to consider,” Graham stated of Perry’s loss of life.
Perry died at age 54 in his Los Angeles-area dwelling on Oct. 28, 2023 from ketamine use that led to his drowning in a scorching tub.
“Whereas he was not technically ever a boyfriend, he was an virtually in my life,” Graham stated. Perry was “a pal and a continuing.”
“We might stretch for a 12 months, then he would come again in my life, and he had simply come again in my life final 12 months,” she stated, sharing that Perry purchased her a pickleball set for her birthday that March.
“He’s like actually into tennis and pickleball, with a card that stated, ‘Be older,’ ” she stated, calling his loss of life “a horrible loss.”
A photograph of Perry and Graham appeared in his 2022 memoir Associates, Lovers and the Large Horrible Factor. “Me and the gorgeous Lauren Graham,” the caption learn.
Graham that Perry was pleased with how his confessional e-book was acquired.
“The solace I take from having seen him on the time I noticed him was he was so thrilled with how his e-book was acquired — and never simply because it was an enormous success, however as a result of his life’s work type of turned, ‘How can I give again? How can I speak in regards to the struggles I had and hopefully assist another person?’” she stated.