Matthew Perry remembered at private gathering attended by family, friends

The one where they said goodbye.

Matthew Perry’s father, John Bennett Perry, and stepfather, Keith Morrison, were spotted at Forest Lawn Church of the Hills in Los Angeles on Friday — in exclusive photos obtained by The Post — for a gathering presumed to be a funeral service for the beloved, late “Friends” star. 

The cemetery is opposite of the Warner Bros studios, where Perry filmed the favored sitcom for 10 years.

Bodyguards for Jennifer Aniston were also seen driving from her LA home and arriving on the venue, though she was not immediately spotted there, nor were Perry’s other “Friends” co-stars, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Courteney Cox and David Schwimmer.

The critically acclaimed actor, who starred as Chandler Bing on the long-running NBC series, died of an apparent drowning at his home on Oct. 28 on the age of 54.

“We’re all so utterly devastated by the lack of Matthew. We were greater than just solid mates. We’re a family,” the solid said in a joint statement on Monday. “There may be a lot to say, but at once we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss.”

“In time we are going to say more, as and after we are able,” they continued. “For now, our thoughts and our love are with Matty’s family, his friends, and everybody who loved him world wide.”

In the future before the gathering, director Jim Burrows, who helmed greater than a dozen episodes of “Friends,” said that he immediately texted Aniston, Cox and Kudrow after hearing of Perry’s passing.

“I had texted the women the day we came upon,” he told “Today” on Thursday. “They were destroyed. It’s a brother dying.”

“Friends” co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane and director Kevin Brilliant also released their very own statement following the tragic news.

“We’re shocked and deeply, deeply saddened by our beloved friend Matthew’s passing,” they said. “It still seems unattainable. All we are able to say is that we feel blessed to have had him as a part of our lives.”

“He was an excellent talent,” the trio continued. “It’s a cliche to say that an actor makes a task their very own, but in Matthew’s case, there aren’t any truer words. From the day we first heard him embody the role of Chandler Bing, there was nobody else for us. We’ll all the time cherish the enjoyment, the sunshine, the blinding intelligence he dropped at every moment – not simply to his work, but in life as well. He was all the time the funniest person within the room. Greater than that, he was the sweetest, with a giving and selfless heart. This truly is The One Where Our Hearts Are Broken.”

The Post confirmed in late October that the beloved “Fools Rush In” star was found underwater after officials received a phone call reporting that the late actor was in his hot tub and never respiration.

In an announcement, 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.”

The caller’s identity has not been revealed by authorities, though TMZ reported it was Perry’s assistant, who made the decision after getting back from an errand.

“An adult male patient was deceased prior to first response arrival,” the LAFD said in an announcement obtained by The Post. “The patient was found by a bystander who had re-positioned the victim where the pinnacle was out of water.”

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Perry, who had been playing pickleball earlier within the day at Riviera Country Club, wasn’t in his hot tub for very long before he was found dead, in line with TMZ.

The Emmy-nominated actor had a protracted history of drug and alcohol abuse and was candid about his decade’s long opioid and alcohol addiction in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.” 

In his memoir, Perry revealed that he had attended 6,000 AA meetings, went to rehab 15 times, had 14 surgeries to try to mitigate the damage from his addiction, and had been in detox 65 times.

“The doctors told my family that I had a 2% likelihood to live,” Perry stated during a promotional interview for his book last yr, after claiming that he almost died in 2018 as a result of a gastrointestinal perforation. “I used to be placed on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all of the respiration on your heart and your lungs. And that’s called a Hail Mary. Nobody survives that.”

The actor, whose net value was an estimated $120 million on the time of his death, in line with Parade, once estimated he spent around $9 million attempting to get sober.

Amid speculation, Perry’s friend Athenna Crosby, 25 — who saw Perry 24 hours before his death — insisted that the actor was “100% sober” now.

“Within the interaction that I had with him, he was extremely positive, sober, acting normal, spoke thoroughly, didn’t give me any impression that he was under [the influence of] drugs or alcohol of any kind,” she told Fox News Digital.

“So, I feel persons are speculating that this was a relapse situation. I just wish to defend him and say that it was not.”

“I can’t know what exactly he was pondering or feeling,” she continued. “And, after all, he was his own person who perhaps he had said, done or considered things the day that he passed that I would never come to know. Not only is it hard to listen to that anyone greatly admired passed away, but it surely’s eerie to listen to that anyone you simply spoke to passed away.”

Perry was never married and had no children on the time of his death.