Matthew Perry donated ‘Big Fat Check’ to the Michael J. Fox Foundation
Michael J Fox recalled Matthew Perry’s generous donation to his foundation after the actor made his record-breaking signing Friends contract.
“I hope this isn’t indiscreet… But when they first made their big sale [on their Friends contracts] and became millionaires for the rest of their lives, he wrote a big check to the [Michael J. Fox] Foundation,” Fox, 62, said Entertainment tonight in an interview published on Monday, November 13. “We were working very early and trying to find our way. And it was such a vote of confidence.”
Fox added that Perry’s generous act “was not accompanied by any self-aggrandizement,” but instead served as a symbol of good faith in Fox’s efforts. “It was a, ‘Take it and do the best you can,’” Fox said. “I thought that was great.”
In 1998, Fox revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease seven years earlier. He then became an advocate for finding a cure and founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000 to help fund research.
Kate Hudson, Bradley Whitford and more pay tribute to Matthew Perry
Celebrities are mourning the loss of actor Matthew Perry following his death at the age of 54. Perry died on Saturday, October 28 from an apparent drowning. Police responded to a call of someone in cardiac arrest at a Los Angeles home where they reportedly found the actor. unconscious in a jacuzzi. Ian Ziering, who worked with […]
Perry, meanwhile, worked with the rest of the Friends cast in 2002 to negotiate a historic $1 million per episode for each of the show’s six main stars. The actor – together with Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer And Lisa Kudrow – all collectively negotiated the deal and told the network they would leave the NBC hit if they weren’t paid equally.
Fox told me AND Monday that he and Perry “spent some time together over the years” and eventually formed a friendship over their mutual love of hockey. He called the late sitcom star — who Fox often publicly praised for his talent — a “funny guy,” adding, “I’m glad I had an impact on him.”
News of Perry’s death broke on October 28 after he was found “unconscious in a free-standing Jacuzzi” by law enforcement officials at his Pacific Palisades home. The Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed days later that he “died prior to the arrival of the first responder.” His official cause of death has yet to be confirmed pending a toxicology report. He was 54.
Following his death, it was announced that Perry’s legacy will live on through his own foundation, which will help those “struggling with the disease of addiction” and will be “guided by his own words and experiences and driven by his passion to make a difference to make. in as many lives as possible.”
Throughout his life, Perry did not shy away from discussing his addiction problems, which he described in his 2022 memoir: Friends, lovers and the big terrible. While promoting the book in November 2022, the Fools Rush In star opened up about how Fox helped shape him as an actor during an interview with Tom Power.
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“I was young, I had done a couple of school plays, and Michael J. Fox was it, man,” Perry said at the time. “When I was in ninth grade, Michael J. Fox had just done Back to the Future, and smoke was coming out of my ears, I was so jealous of this man.”