Matthew Perry had 'gentlemanly' reaction after Friends star had wardrobe malfunction at his home

While we didn't need another reason to love Matthew Perry, his Friends co-star has given us one.

Perry tragically died in October 2023 at the age of 54 at his home in Los Angeles. He died from a ketamine overdose after allegedly being given 27 shots of the drug outside of the treatment he'd been receiving for anxiety and depression.

Tributes are constantly made to Perry in the wake of his untimely death, many of which come from his Friends co-stars.

Speaking earlier this year, Lisa Kudrow (who starred as Phoebe in the well-loved sitcom) shared that she had stumbled across a note in a cookie jar that Perry had penned to her 20 years ago.

"Matthew gave that to me at the end of our last episode," Kudrow recalled to Drew Barrymore on her show. "I had recently found the note that he had in it for me."

She added: "I hadn't opened it up or looked inside of it. But yeah, he did. He had a note in there and I forgot about it."

Now, Paget Brewster has recalled a sweet moment she had with Perry when he was alive. Brewster is best known for her role as Emily Prentiss in long-running crime show Criminal Minds but for Friends fans, they'll always remember her as playing Perry's on-screen love interest Kathy.

Speaking to The Independent, the actress said: "I remember we had one day where Matthew and I were not going to be in scenes for about three hours. And so he said, 'Hey, do you want to go? Do you want to go play basketball at my house? It’s just up Mulholland [Drive in Los Angeles].' And I was like, 'Sure, let’s — I’ll go play basketball at your house.'"

Matthew Perry and Paget Brewster played each other's love interest in Friends (Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

Brewster went on to recount: "We’re throwing hoops, and I was wearing a pair of his shorts and my bra. [...] I threw a shot, and my bra slipped down, and Matthew — I’m laughing — and he looks at me, and he [puts his hand over his eyes] and goes, 'You’re, you gotta, you might wanna take a look at that.'"

She went on to describe Perry as 'such a gentleman and a sweetheart' in that moment.

"He’s definitely missed," Brewster added of the late actor.

Paget Brewster said Matthew Perry was 'a gentleman and a sweetheart' (Randy Shropshire/Getty Images)

The Criminal Minds star paid tribute to Perry at the time of his death and urged people to read his book, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.

"I’m so very sad to hear about @MatthewPerry," she penned on Twitter at the time.

"He was lovely to me on Friends and every time I saw him in the decades after. Please read his book. It was his legacy to help," Brewster went on.

"He won’t rest in peace though. He’s already too busy making everyone laugh up there."

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