Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry at the 1995 NBC Fall Preview in NYC.Photo:Ron Davis/Getty
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Jennifer Anistonwants fans of the lateMatthew Perryto honor his legacy in one simple way.
“For #GivingTuesday please join me and Matty’s family in supporting his foundation - which is working to help those suffering with addiction 🤍,” Aniston wrote in a post on her Instagram Story on Tuesday, in honor of the global day of generosity.
The foundation supports those suffering from addiction, like Perry did himself, “He would have been grateful for the love 🥰”
Jennifer Aniston shares a message to ‘Friends’ fans.Jennifer Aniston/Instagram
Jennifer Aniston/Instagram
Perry’s stepfather,Keith Morrison, shared a similarmessageon X (formerly known as Twitter) on Monday as he admitted, “This is not the sort of thing I commonly do, this pitch. But this year is different. And tomorrow is Giving Tuesday. Do what you can; he would have been grateful.”
Morrison — who married Perry’s mother, Suzanne Perry, in 1981 andhad a special bond with his stepson— also included a link to the foundation’s website in the post as he urged fans to support the organization.
The day before Giving Tuesday — when Aniston and Morrison shared their respective posts about paying tribute to Perry, who was 54 when he died — the actor’s family told PEOPLE the Matthew Perry Foundation’s goal is “identifying addiction as a disease, addressing the complex stigmas that prevents individuals from seeking and accessing care, and fiercely advocating for better and more equitable treatment.”
“It is important to us, as a family, to honor Matthew’s legacy,” Perry’s family said. “The potential that the Matthew Perry Foundation has to help those suffering from this disease is something we are proud to bring to the world.”
Establishing a foundation to support those suffering from substance abuse was somethingthe late actor had been planning to doprior to his death last month, PEOPLE learned. A decade ago, he founded Perry House, a men’s sober living facility which ran for two years.
Aniston’s post encouraging her followers andFriendsfans to donate to Perry’s foundation marks her first post on social media sinceshe broke her silence about the loss of the late actorin anInstagram tributeon Nov. 15.
The Morning Showactress continued, “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.”
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She said that she had been looking back on their many text conversations, even sharing one of them in her second slide. “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. (See the second slide…),” she said.
The conversation included Perry sending Aniston the black-and-white photo of them on the sitcom’s set, along with a message, “Making you laugh just made my day. It made my day:),” to which she had replied, “Awww the first of THOUSANDS of times…🤩😂♥❤️.”
source: people.com
