Matthew Perry
"That was when I first realised that everybody on this show was great," the Emmy nominee recalled last year.
"Give his family and friends grace to mourn and grieve without all this noise," she urged.
The actor and Goop founder opened up about her pre-fame 1993 romance with the Friends star following the news of his death this weekend.
"We were more than just cast mates. We are a family," said Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox and Matt LeBlanc.
Perry knew what it meant to be caught in the riptide of the disease.
"Thank you for giving us Chandler Bing."
The address in Bedford Street in NYC was the ‘home’ of Matthew's character Chandler Bing.
"The best thing about me, bar none, is that if somebody comes to me and says, ‘I can’t stop drinking, can you help me?’ I can say ‘yes’ and follow up and do it."
"We will always cherish the joy, the light, the blinding intelligence he brought to every moment."
Friends co-star Maggie Wheeler, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and singer Adele are among those who have remembered Matthew.