Lauren Graham says Matthew Perry's death is 'still really hard to believe' as ... trends now

Lauren Graham is recalling some of her fondest memories from her friendship with  late Friends actor Matthew Perry — five months after he tragically passed away at age 54.

While playing host to a Q&A with fans, as part of her book tour for Have I Told You This Already? Stories I Don't Want to Forget To Remember, the actress confessed that Perry's death is 'still really hard to believe.'

She then told the crowd that Perry was a 'constant' in her life and even alluded to a prior romantic connection.

'While he was not technically ever a boyfriend, he was an almost in my life,' she told the crowd, before adding that Perry was in fact 'a friend.'

She went on to describe their relationship as two friends who would come in and out of each other's lives at different times over the decades, according to People.

'We would stretch for a year, then he would come back in my life, and he had just come back in my life last year,' the former Gilmore Girls leading lady admitted.

Graham proceeded to disclose that Perry sent her 'a pickleball set' for her 56th birthday in March 2023, which got plenty of smiles a laughs from the audience.

It turns out the man best known to fans for playing the role of Chandler Bing on Friends (1994-2004) had been playing pickleball earlier on the day he died, and then came back to his Los Angeles home to rest in his hot tub.

Eventually, he was found unresponsive in his hot tub and pronounced dead just after 4 p.m. that frightful afternoon.

'He's like really into tennis and pickleball, with a card that said, "Be older,"' she said, which led to her calling his death 'a terrible loss.'

Perry had once referred to Graham as 'one of my favorite people' during a Q&A he hosted for his sitcom The Odd Couple (2015-2017), which ran for three seasons on CBS.

Graham would go on to play Gaby Madison in an episode of the series, which was the seventh screen production

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