Saturday Night Live pays tribute to Matthew Perry as former Friend’s star’s sudden death aged 54 is confirmed

The cast of Saturday Night Live have paid tribute to Matthew Perry, shortly after the former Friends star’s sudden death at the age of 54 was confirmed.

Matthew, who rose to fame playing Chandler Bing in ‘Friends’, is said to have drowned in a jacuzzi, according to a report from TMZ, while one of his close friends told the Daily Mail that his best friends are in a state of “total shock” . .

Sources said he “died in his own home after some physical activity” on Saturday morning, and doctors were called to his home to respond to an apparent heart attack incident.

TMZ added, “We’re told Matthew arrived home sometime after a two-hour game of pickleball, and sent his assistant out shortly after.

“We’re told when the deputy returned about two hours later, he found Matthew unconscious and called 911.”

TMZ’s sources said emergency workers “came to him on a cardiac arrest call” and it is unclear where exactly he was found dead on the grounds of the actor’s home.

But insiders revealed he was found in a jacuzzi in his country home.

They also said no drugs were found at the scene and there was no foul play.

The actor was last seen at a restaurant called The Apple Pan in Los Angeles, where he appeared dejected despite being out with friends.

Matthew’s latest post on Instagram showed him enjoying a dip in what appeared to be a jacuzzi.

The caption read: ‘Oh, so the warm water swirling around makes you feel good? I’m Mattman.’

Matthew was believed to be single at the time of his death.

Heartbroken fans have flooded social media with messages of their devastation following Matthew’s death.

One said on X: ‘Please don’t tell me this Matthew Perry (news) is true.’

Matthew played Chandler on ‘Friends’ for ten seasons as he struggled with a series of addictions.

Despite saying he had kicked his drug and drinking habits, Matthew had often raised concerns about his health by being seen out and about looking overweight and disheveled.

His memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: A Candid, Darkly Funny Book exposed his struggles with addictions that became so severe that

In 2018, at the age of 49, he suffered a gastrointestinal perforation as a result of his extreme opiate use.

He was given just a two percent chance of living after being in a coma for two weeks and the actor had to use a colostomy bag while his colon healed.

Matthew revealed that while his body was dependent on the bag, he woke up in his own feces ’50 to 60′ times during the five months he was in hospital.

He said: ‘I had sex all over my body, all over my body, in the next bed. If it breaks, it breaks. You need to get nurses.”

He said that at the height of his addiction, he was taking about 55 Vicodin pills a day and weighed only 128 pounds.

Matthew also joked that viewers could now tell what drugs he was taking by observing his varying appearances on Friends.

He said in his book: ‘You can follow the trajectory of my addiction if you measure my weight from season to season.

“If I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; if I’m skinny, it’s pills; if I have a goatee, it’s a lot of pills.’