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Jennifer Aniston is ‘struggling’ after Matthew Perry’s death: ‘Completely knocked her off her feet’

  2024-03-06 pagesixSara Nathan41390
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Jennifer Aniston’s friends are worried about her in the wake of Matthew Perry’s death, sources tell Pvnew.The “Friend

Jennifer Aniston is ‘struggling’ after Matthew Perry’s death: ‘Completely knocked her off her feet’

Jennifer Aniston’s friends are worried about her in the wake of Matthew Perry’s death, sources tell Pvnew.

The “Friends” star has taken his passing at just 54 extremely badly, according to a well-placed industry source.

She and the other four surviving members of the cast of “Friends” mourned him at his funeral Friday.

“Out of the remaining five, Jen and Courteney [Cox] are reeling the most, and Jen is probably the one who is struggling most acutely,” said the source.

“It’s a second massive loss in less than a year, with the one-year anniversary of her dad’s death just around the corner. She still hasn’t fully regained her footing from that, and now this has just completely knocked her off her feet.”

Aniston’s father, John Aniston, starred on “Days of Our Lives,” and in announcing his death at age 89 in November 2022, the actress called him “one of the most beautiful humans I ever knew.”

Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow
Jennifer Aniston — who starred with Matthew Perry on “Friends” since in 1994 — is “struggling most acutely” with his death, friends tell Pvnew. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
Jennifer Aniston, John Aniston
She is also still grieving the loss of her beloved father, actor John Aniston, who died in November 2022. Getty Images

“She is trying to regroup and recover but it’s been a completely devastating blow,” the source added.

The 54-year-old star joined remaining cast members Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc, at Perry’s funeral at Forest Lawn cemetery in LA on Friday — minutes away from the Warner Bros. studios where they filmed the NBC sitcom for a decade.

Aniston — who broke down in tears in a 2004 interview at the prospect of losing Perry — was seen walking behind the other cast members accompanied by a security guard.

Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow
Aniston was joined by her bodyguard at Perry’s funeral, walking in with the rest of the “Friends” cast — Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc. Splash/Shutterstock

However, while the cast — who released a touching tribute to their “brother” — joined the intimate service, they did not join family and close friends for his burial, where the Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush hit “Don’t Give Up” was played.

Perry drowned in the jacuzzi at his Pacific Palisades home at the end of last month. He was open about his struggles and addiction and had praised Aniston for checking in on him.

“She was the one that reached out the most. You know, I’m really grateful to her for that,” Perry said of Aniston in an October 2022 interview with Diane Sawyer.

Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer
The group united after the service. Shutterstock / SplashNews

Perry also revealed that it was Aniston who initially confronted him on the “Friends” set when his addiction became evident to his castmates.

He also disclosed his crush on Aniston after meeting her through mutual friends three years before they started work on their sitcom, detailing in his memoir how she gently let him down when he asked her out.

“She declined (which made it very difficult to actually go out with her), but said that she’d love to be friends with me, and I compounded the compound by blurting, ‘We can’t be friends!’ “

Jennifer Aniston
She wore an all-black suit to the memorial. Shutterstock / SplashNews

Although he was still crushing on her when they started “Friends,” which first aired in September 1994, he said his feelings did eventually wear off, mainly because of Aniston’s “deafening lack of interest.”

But the pair instead grew an unbreakable bond, with Perry revealing that it was Aniston who “reached out the most” amid his years-long drug and alcohol addiction.

In August, Aniston, currently starring in “The Morning Show,” opened up about her father’s death to the Wall Street Journal as she said she believed he had sent her a sign at his funeral.

Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry in 1995
Perry told how he was crushing on Aniston when “Friends” first aired, but her lack of romantic interest meant that their relationship turned into an unbreakable bond. Getty Images

She revealed how she dropped a crystal that she’d kept for years into her father’s jacket before his burial. Afterward, she noticed that the crystal had apparently broken and she still had a piece of it on her vanity.

“I feel closer to him now than I did almost when he was alive,” she said. “I feel like he’s everywhere. I really do.”

Pvnew has reached out to her rep for comment.

(By/Sara Nathan)
 
 
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