Matthew Perry.Photo:Frazer Harrison/Getty
Frazer Harrison/Getty
One of the last people to speak toMatthew Perrybefore hisuntimely deathis opening up about their time together and the words of advice she received from him.
Crobsy, 25, reveals to PEOPLE that the duo were introduced through mutual friends; she invited him out to lunch at the Bel Air Hotel thinking it would be a quiet place where she could pick his brain about his experiences in the industry.
“He was looking to just meet creative people who would obviously support him on his goals,” the pageant star says of Perry. “Honestly, I just think he was really just nice and generous to be able to meet with me.”
“Obviously if he’s a big celebrity, he doesn’t need to meet with anybody, but he agreed to and was so nice and I was just getting to know him better and seeing if there was any things that we had in common and things that maybe we could do together in the future,” she adds.
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“It was just a cool opportunity for me to meet such a legendary person,” she gushes of their nearly two-hour-long lunch. “Definitely felt like I had known him forever."
She continues, “He told me that it’s an arduous process to be in this industry — as I have definitely come to believe his words through the last couple of days — but that if I really know myself and want to succeed, nobody can really stop you.”
“I think that’s something that he felt in his own life,” the entertainment reporter notes, explaining that Perry’s “struggles and trials and tribulations” pushed him to become “his own biggest cheerleader.”
Matthew Perry.Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic
Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic
“He was just being really kind and saying, ‘Don’t ever let anybody derail you, ruin your dreams, because if you really want that, you can make them happen,'” she recalls.
“He was doing super well in his sobriety. He looked happy. He looked healthy,” she shares. “He only had good things to say.”
“That’s kind of my role in all of this,” she explains. “I’m not a friend of the family or a close friend or anything, so I am just here to clear the air and say there was nothing weird going on. He was totally normal, he was super nice.”
“He was looking forward to life, and that’s the extent of… what I saw the day before he passed away,” she concludes.
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Perry died in his Los Angeles home on Saturday after an apparent drowning. The star, who was 54, was best known for portraying Chandler Bing onFriendsfor 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to PEOPLE thatan autopsy has been completedand results are pending a toxicology report. However, an online record has the status of the actor’s cause of death currently listed as “deferred” since it’s “pending additional investigation.”
source: people.com
