Julia Roberts breaks her silence on ex Matthew Perry’s ‘heartbreaking’ death

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on October 28. He was 54.“The sudden passing of anybody so young is heartbreaking,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “I think that, you know, it just helps all of us just appreciate what we have and to keep going in a positive way as best we can.”Roberts, 56, and the “Whole Nine Yards” star became friendly in the early 1990s shortly before Roberts starred in a guest role on the show’s second season. “They were all so welcoming to me as just a kind of a one-off character and it was a really fun time,” she told ET of the “Friends” cast.She added: “All good thoughts and feelings.”In Perry’s 2022 memoir “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Things,” he revealed that Roberts only agreed to star in the hit NBC show if her character would somehow fit into Chandler Bing’s story arc.

At the request of the show’s producer Marta Kauffman, he further encouraged Roberts to appear on the show by sending her roses and a personal card. “Thus began a three-month-long courtship by daily faxes,” the “Serving Sara” star wrote. “This was pre-internet, pre-cell phones – all our exchanges were done by fax.

And there were many; hundreds.”“Three or four times a day I would sit by my fax machine and watch the piece of paper slowly revealing her next missive,” Perry added.

According to the “17 Again” actor, he became “captivated” by what the future Oscar winner wrote. “The way she strung sentences together, the way she saw the world, the way she articulated her unique thoughts, all was so captivating,” Perry recalled.