‘He was complicated’: Matthew Perry’s ex-fiancée speaks out following his death
Matthew Perry‘s former fiancée has penned a tribute to the late actor, reflecting on his comedic “brilliance” and the “profound impact” he had on her.
Molly Hurwitz, a literary manager, got engaged to Perry in November 2020 after the pair dated for about two years. In June 2021, Perry announced the couple had gone their separate ways.
“Sometimes things just don’t work out and this is one of them,” the actor said at the time.
In the wake of Perry’s death at 54, Hurwitz shared a photo to Instagram of the actor looking out onto a frozen Rideau Canal in Ottawa. Perry lived in Ottawa for a time during his childhood, with his Canadian mother Suzanne Perry, who worked as a press secretary for then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
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“He would love that the world is talking about how talented he was,” Hurwitz began her post. “And he really was very talented.”
Hurwitz recalled how she and Perry did a rewatch of Friends in the run-up to the show’s reunion special that aired in 2021. Perry won an Emmy in 2002 for his work as Chandler Bing on the series.
“As the Friends reunion was approaching, we rewatched the show together. ‘F–k, I was so good!!!…See what I did there???’ We rewound and studied scenes. Our respect and appreciation of humor is something that connected us,” Hurwitz wrote. “Being with him as he rediscovered his brilliance was magical.”
But like all relationships, not everything was perfect.
“I obviously knew that man in a very different way, too,” Hurwitz said. “While I loved him deeper than I could comprehend, he was complicated, and he caused pain like I’d never known.”
“No one in my adult life has had a more profound impact on me than Matthew Langford Perry,” she
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