Jennifer Aniston encourages fans to continue to ‘Celebrate’ late Matthew Perry’s legacy

Jennifer Aniston encourages fans to continue to ‘Celebrate’ the late Matthew Perry’s legacy as she attended the Critics Choice Awards 2024 ceremony in Santa Monica, California.

The Friends star opened up about the death of her late costar.

Aniston, 54, spoke out about her late costar at Sunday’s 2024 Critics’ Choice Awards first time at an event after his death.

Asked by Entertainment Tonight how she hopes Matthew Perry’s fans continue to honour his legacy, told the outlet that they should “celebrate him.”

Perry died on Oct. 28 at the age of 54 at his Los Angeles home.

Following his death, Aniston shared an emotional tribute to her late Friends co-star in an Instagram post.

Aniston wrote: “Oh boy this one has cut deep… Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before. We all experience loss at some point in our lives. Loss of life or loss of love. Being able to really SIT in this grief allows you to feel the moments of joy and gratitude for having loved someone that deep. And we loved him deeply.”

“He was such a part of our DNA. We were always the 6 of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be. For Matty, he KNEW he loved to make people laugh. As he said himself, if he didn’t hear the ‘laugh’ he thought he was going to die. His life literally depended on it. And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh. And laugh hard. In the last couple weeks, I’ve been pouring over our texts to one another. Laughing and crying then laughing again. I’ll keep them forever and ever. I found one text that he sent me out of nowhere one day. It says it all,” she added.