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Jennifer Aniston Mourned Matthew Perry for a ‘Long Time’ Before His Death<\/a> originally appeared on Parade<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n Jennifer Aniston<\/strong> revealed that she mourned her late Friends<\/em> co-star Matthew Perry<\/strong> before his death at the age of 54.<\/p>\n Perry died from the \u201cacute effects\u201d of ketamine in October 2024. However, he had been open about his issues with substance abuse throughout his career.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did everything we could when we could,\u201d Aniston, 56, told Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em> in an interview published on Monday, August 11, about her and her co-stars attempts to help Perry amid his addiction struggles. Not only did they try to help him when they were filming Friends<\/em>, but they continued to show up for him when the show ended in 2004.<\/p>\n She continued, \u201cBut it almost felt like we\u2019d been mourning Matthew<\/a> for a long time because his battle with that disease was a really hard one for him to fight. As hard as it was for all of us and for the fans, there\u2019s a part of me that thinks this is better. I\u2019m glad he\u2019s out of that pain.\u201d<\/p>\n Parade Daily\ud83c\udfac\u00a0<\/strong>SIGN UP for Parade\u2019s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\ud83c\udfac<\/strong><\/p>\n Following Perry’s death, Aniston paid tribute to him<\/a> by sharing a heartfelt text message he previously sent her. \u201cMaking you laugh just made my day. It made my day,” he wrote alongside a photo of them laughing on set of the beloved sitcom.<\/p>\n \u201cHaving to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I\u2019ve never experienced before,\u201d she wrote at the time. \u201cHe 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\u2019t hear the \u2018laugh\u2019 he thought he was going to die. His life literally depended on it. And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh. And laugh hard.\u201d<\/p>\n