After Matthew Perry’s tragic demise on October 28, a resurfaced interview from six months in the past is shedding new mild on what the Pals actor hoped his legacy could be, and the way he wished to be remembered. “As a man who lived life, beloved properly, lived properly, and helped folks,” the enduring actor informed the Los Angeles Occasions throughout an April 2023 interview.   “That working into me was a very good factor, and never one thing unhealthy.”

He additionally addressed the subject as he was selling his 2022 memoir, Pals, Lovers and the Huge Horrible Factor. “One of the best factor about me, bar none, is that if any person comes as much as me and says, ‘I can’t cease ingesting, are you able to assist me?’ I can say sure and comply with up and do it,” he mentioned in November of 2022 throughout a Q with Tom Energy sit-down interview. “It’s the perfect factor.”

The Fools Rush In star added that he didn’t need his legendary sitcom to be the very first thing folks considered when he died “And I’ve mentioned this for a very long time; after I die, I don’t need Pals to be the very first thing that’s talked about,” he defined. “I need that [helping people to stop drinking] to be the very first thing that’s talked about, and I’m going to stay the remainder of my life proving that.”

Matthew was reportedly discovered unresponsive in a sizzling tub at his L.A. dwelling on Saturday on the age of 54. Only a 12 months earlier than his demise, he dropped revelation after revelation in his memoir, which additionally detailed his battle with dependancy and subsequent well being points — together with a ruptured colon resulting from opioid use.

“The docs informed my household that I had a 2 p.c likelihood to stay,” he wrote in an excerpt. “I used to be placed on a factor known as an ECMO machine, which does all of the respiration on your coronary heart and your lungs. And that’s known as a Hail Mary. Nobody survives that.”

Matthew additionally confessed that he went to rehab 15 occasions in an try and get better. “It’s vital, however in the event you lose your sobriety, it doesn’t imply you lose all that point and training,” he wrote. “Your sober date modifications, however that’s all that modifications. You recognize the whole lot you knew earlier than, so long as you have been in a position to combat your method again with out dying, you study so much.”