Matt LeBlanc and Courteney Cox have paid tribute to their late "Friends" co-star Matthew Perry, sharing their favorite moments with the actor.
More than two weeks after his death, LeBlanc posted a touching message on Instagram. Alongside photos featuring the cast in their roles as Joey Tribbiani and Chandler Bing on Friends, LeBlanc, 56, wrote: “Matthew. It is with a broken heart that I say goodbye."
"The times we spent together are honestly some of the favorite times of my life. It was an honor to share the stage with you and call you my friend. I will always smile when I think of you and I will never forget you. Never. Spread your wings and fly brother, you are finally free. Lots of love. And I wonder if you're keeping the $20 you owe me.”
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Cox also shared one of her favorite moments with the late actor.
“I am so grateful for every moment I had with you Matty and I miss you every day. When you work with someone as close as I do with Matthew, there are tons of moments I wish I could share. Right now here is one of my favorites. I'll tell you a short story: Chandler and Monica were supposed to just spend a night together in London. But due to the reaction of the public, it was the beginning of their love story. In this scene, he whispered a funny line for me to say. He often did such things. He was gallant and kind."
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The other two stars of "Friends", Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer, have remembered their late colleague and friend, Matthew Perry.
In a post on Instagram, Jennifer Aniston, who played the role of Rachel Green in "Friends", wrote among other things: "Saying goodbye to our Matty has been a wave of difficult emotions that I have never experienced before seen. We all experience loss at some point in our lives. Separation from someone's life or loss of love. Being able to think through this grief allows you to feel the moments of joy and be grateful that you loved someone so much. And we loved it very much. He was a part of our DNA.”
Next she adds:
"We were always the 6th. This was a chosen family that forever changed the path of who we were and what our path would be. Matty knew he liked to make people laugh. As he himself said, if he didn't hear the 'laughter' he thought he would die. His life literally depended on it. And it worked. He made us all laugh. And we laughed out loud. In the last two weeks, I read our messages with each other. Laughing and crying then laughing again. I will treasure them forever. I found a message he sent me out of nowhere one day. He says it all."
The message Matthew sent her reads: “Making you laugh made my day. Made my day :)"
“Matty, I love you so much and I know you are now completely at peace and pain free. I talk to you everyday… sometimes I can almost hear you saying "could you be any more crazy?" Rest bro. You always brightened my days," Aniston concludes.
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While David Schwimmer, who played the role of Ross Geller in "Friends", wrote on Instagram among other things:
"This photo is from one of my favorite moments with you. Now it makes me smile and sad at the same time. I imagine you up there, somewhere, in the same white suit, hands in your pockets, looking around - “Could there BE any more clouds? [Can there be more clouds?]”
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The six members of "Friends" formed a close friendship over the 10 seasons of the sitcom, which premiered in 1994.