Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends’ TV mom Morgan Fairchild reflects on his death 1 year later: ‘What could’ve been, should’ve been’

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of his death. Fairchild, who played the mother to Perry’s Chandler Bing on “Friends,” spoke to The Post about Perry’s passing “I’ve actually been thinking about it a lot,” Fairchild told The Post.“Matthew was such a terrific young man.

The Matthew I remember was always joyful and kind of frenetic. He had a very frenetic energy that as soon as he came in the room it just boosted you.” Fairchild made a splash on the first season of “Friends” as Nora Bing, Chandler’s flamboyant romance novelist of a mother who was a perpetual source of embarrassment for her son.The star recalled that when she came aboard the show, “Friends” was not the hit it would one day be.

Fairchild’s friend and “Dallas” co-star Cicely Tyson even discouraged her from taking the role. “You’re too young to play that guy’s mother!” Fairchild remembered Tyson telling her. “I said, ‘You know, you gotta make that transition at some point.

I think the show has potential.’ ”As it turned out, Fairchild had already met “that guy.” “The first day on the set, Matthew comes bounding over to me like a big puppy dog and says, ‘You won’t remember me, but you used to hang out with me on ‘Flamingo Road’ and ‘Falcon Crest,’ ” Perry told the actress.