Matthew Perry's Relationship With Parents & Why He Wished Dad Wouldn't See A Dime Of His Money
John Bennett Perry (82) and Suzanne Perry Morrison (75) were married for two years before they separated. They got married in 1968 and Perry was born in 1969.?
Matthew Perry's relationship with his father??
Matthew Perry shared a tumultuous relationship with his father?John Bennett Perry (82). In his early years, his fraught relationship with her father and his struggle with addiction were central to his problems.
In his 2022 memoir ?Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, he said that his father?"abandoned" him and his mother, Suzanne Perry, to pursue a career in acting. Matthew was nine months old at that time. The couple got divorced when he was a year old. He only knew his father through his television appearances.
When he turned 15, he moved from Canada to Hollywood to get back in touch with his father. He felt like a broken human being at that time as he had arift with his mother when he moved out. He moved in with his father who bought him acting books to read.
Mutual addiction
Matthew and Perry didn't only share mutual love for acting but also alcohol. John ?was addicted to alcohol and after moving with him, Matthew also began to drink. In his book, he revealed, he would drink six vodka tonics every night and called it the best part of?his day.?
Do you know his father appeared in an episode of FRIENDS?
John appeared in?The One with Rachel's New Dress.?He played the role of the father of?Rachel Green's boyfriend Joshua.
Perry who struggled with addiction for most of his life once revealed that his stepmother was angry after he would sneak drugs and alcohol in their home after he started to live with them. His stepmother was so angry that eventually his father asked him to leave the house. "Oh, I'll leave, but neither of you will ever see a dime of my money, ever, I thought, but I did not say," he wrote in his book.?
In his later years, however, he shared a good bond with his father. In one of his last Instagram posts, he wrote, "Here is me, and my father John, both holding a beverage."
Matthew Perry's relationship with his mom
Perry's mother Suzanne Perry Morrison was the press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Talking about his mother's busy career, he said in his book, "I was left to compete with the ongoing concerns of a major Western democracy and its charismatic swordsman leader if I wanted a little attention."
In an interview with Tom Power, he shared how he wanted her mother Suzanne's attention when he once accompanied her to work. As she entered into a ballroom, into the spotlight, he trailed after her. "All I wanted was for her to turn around and focus on me, be with me. And she never really did that."?
However, in the later years, he shared a good relationship with both his mother and father. In fact, in 2018, when he was hospitalised due to a burst colon due to an addiction that sent him into a coma for two weeks, both his mother and father were there to support him.?
What will happen to Perry's massive fortune??
As per Los Angeles entertainment lawyer Tre Lovell, there are three options that could happen. "There may be a trust, and that would be administered privately, through his trustee. He could have had a will — that would be administered under [probate] court supervision. If he had neither, there’s a statutory framework put in place, where there’s a listing of his heirs that would get his estate," he told the New York Post.?
Since Perry had no wife or children and his parents are still alive, they are likely to get it.?
He also revealed that FRIENDS cast members including Perry earn?$20 million (Rs 165 crores) as royalty. He will continue to get that even after his death as per the obligation.?
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