Adele paused her Las Vegas show to pay tribute to Matthew Perry shortly after his death Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The British singer-songwriter, 35, shared that she had “never met [Perry] in my life,” but said she’ll remember his “Friends” character “for the remainder of my life.”
“He’s probably the perfect comedic character of all time,” Adele told the audience on the Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace, which hosts her Vegas residency.
Perry, 54, played lovable goofball Chandler Bing on the NBC sitcom from 1994 to 2004. Early reports say Perry died of accidental drowning in the recent tub at his Los Angeles home.
“The Whole Nine Yards” star had long battled drug and alcohol addiction, which Adele noted at Saturday’s show.
“He was so open together with his struggles with addiction and sobriety, which I feel is incredibly, incredibly brave,” said Adele, who recently revealed she had quit drinking.
Perry addressed his addiction in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.”
He admitted that at one point through the 10 seasons of “Friends,” he was consuming 55 Vicodin a day.
“I didn’t know easy methods to stop,” he wrote. “If the police got here over to my house and said, ‘In case you drink tonight, we’re going to take you to jail,’ I’d start packing. I couldn’t stop since the disease and the addiction is progressive. So it gets worse and worse as you get older.”
TMZ reported drugs weren’t found on the scene of Perry’s death Saturday.
He reportedly played 2 hours of pickleball and sent his assistant out for an errand. The assistant found him unresponsive and called 911, per the outlet.
In a press release Saturday, the Los Angeles Police Department told The Post: “We responded to the 1800 block of Blue Sail Rd for a death investigation on a male 4:10 p.m. this afternoon. He was in his 50s.”
Besides Adele, other celebrities have paid tribute to Perry, including Maggie Wheeler, who played his occasional love interest on “Friends.”
