Friends star Matthew Perry ’s younger sister and stepfather have opened up about their loss and how they are remembering the beloved star following his death last year aged 54. Keith Morrison and his daughter Caitlin Morrison made the emotional comments in a new interview with HELLO! Canada . WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Matthew Perry gives advice for people struggling with addiction.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Caitlin, 43, who shares the same mother as Perry, is the executive director of Canada’s Matthew Perry Foundation . Perry spent much of his childhood in the country when his parents divorced and his mother married Morrison, a Canadian journalist. “It feels like I’m sitting right next to Matthew, working with him every day on something that was important to him,” Caitlin said of her role with the foundation.
“I have this treasure of getting to keep him very, very close to my life all the time, which is wonderful.” Keith Morrison, who married Perry’s mother in 1981, recalled the shock of losing him. “Anybody who has lost a child will tell you that, even if you are in some way prepared for the possibility, it’s shattering.
” The Canadian-American actor, best known for playing Chandler Bing on the hit 1990s sitcom, died in an apparent drowning at his Los Angeles home on October 28, 2023. Morrison emphasised the importance of honouring Perry’s memory “What we have decided to do is hang on to that determination and try to do something .