We await the verdict of the coroner, the medical examiner, to try to reconstruct the last hours of Matthew Perry , the unforgettable Chandler Bing from the record-breaking series Friends.

“He loved pickleball and played every day, but that day, Saturday, he was tired, more tired than usual, and he left the court after an hour of playing,” recalls Billy Bush, scion of the family that gave America two presidents and former regular presence on NBC entertainment shows.

In the meantime, the medical examiners have completed the autopsy and returned the body to the family so that they can plan the funeral. It emerged that Matthew, 54, spent over a month in hospital last winter due to health problems. “Friends feared he wouldn't make it, but then he recovered, always hoping that a new job or a new woman was around the corner,” a source said.

It will take weeks, six to eight, before the final results of the toxicology tests to understand whether Perry - who lived alone after overcoming a decades-long addiction to alcohol and drugs - had taken medicines (among the bottles found in his villa in Pacific Palisades there were anxiolytics and antidepressants) which may have interacted lethally with the immersion in the hot water of the jacuzzi where he was found dead.

Meanwhile, in New York, fans gathered under the house in the West Village where the exteriors of the series were filmed between 1994 and 2004.

The other protagonists of Friends – Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc – remained silent for long hours after the death of their co-star: «They are working on a joint statement», anticipated a source . On behalf of the show, Warner Bros had thought about making them speak yesterday , defining Matthew on the sitcom's official profile as "a true gift for all of us".

(Unioneonline/D)

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