Highlights
- Fans were left with questions about Matthew Perry's personal life after his mysterious passing. His cryptic Instagram posts seemed like a premonition.
- Perry's relationships with famous celebrities didn't last due to his public struggle with substance abuse. His last relationship was with his literary agent, Molly Hurwitz.
- Perry admitted to his fear of intimacy and how it affected his past relationships. However, he was confident and ready to find love and start a family, hoping to become a great father.
Matthew Perry
Birthname Matthew Langford Perry Birthdate August 19, 1969 Profession Actor Instagram @mattyperry4Matthew Perry's mysterious passing left fans with a lot of questions about his personal life. The Friends star had some cryptic Instagram posts a week before his death. The final one even seemed like a premonition.
Fans are also curious if the Growing Pains alum was dating anyone. He famously dated Friends guest star Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz, and even Chandler's crush Yasmine Bleeth, among many other celebrities.
Later on, Perry admitted that none of these relationships lasted, partly due to his public struggle with substance abuse. Here's a closer look at his love life at the time of his death.
Matthew Perry Was Engaged Two Years Before His Death
Perry's last relationship was with his literary agent, Molly Hurwitz. They started dating in 2018 and got engaged in 2020. "I decided to get engaged," Perry announced to People back then. "Luckily, I happened to be dating the greatest woman on the face of the planet at this time."
They split up six months after Perry proposed while he was at a rehab in Switzerland. They broke up for good in June 2021. "Sometimes things just don't work out and this is one of them," Perry said in a statement at that time. "I wish Molly the best."
Hurwitz posted an Instagram tribute to his ex, days after his death, saying that "he would love that the world is talking about how talented he was. And he really was very talented."
She even recalled, "As the Friends reunion was approaching, we rewatched the show together. 'F---, I was so good!!!…See what I did there???' We rewound and studied scenes. Our respect and appreciation of humor is something that connected us. Being with him as he rediscovered his brilliance was magical."
Before signing the lengthy post with what seems like a nickname Perry gave Hurwitz, "Moll-o-Rama(…fication)," she said she "obviously knew that man in a very different way, too" but that "while I loved him deeper than I could comprehend, he was complicated, and he caused pain like I'd never known."
She continued: "No one in my adult life has had a more profound impact on me than Matthew Langford Perry. I have tremendous gratitude for that, for everything I learned from our relationship [...] Matty, I feel relief that you are at peace."
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In October 2022, ahead of the release of his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry told People about his fear of intimacy. "That was me afraid," he said of breaking up with his famous exes. "I manifest something that’s wrong with them, and then I break up with them. But there can't be something wrong with everyone. I'm the common denominator. I left first because I thought they were going to annihilate me."
The Fools Rush In star wrote in his book that he broke up with Roberts just because he was scared she would dump him. "Two months later, I was single," he said of their brief romance. "Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me. Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unloveable."
He also opened up about almost getting engaged to Mean Girls star, Lizzy Caplan. "All my fears reared up like a snake," he said of not being brave enough to pop the question. "I often think if I'd asked [her to marry me], now we'd have two kids and a house. Instead, I'm some schmuck who's alone in his house at fifty-three." They were together for six years until 2012.
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In October 2022, Perry told People that he was now "confident" to find love and hopefully start a family. Reflecting on his past issues, he said: "But there can't be something wrong with everyone. I'm the common denominator. I left first because I thought they were going to annihilate me."
He got over that "tremendous amount of fear" of intimacy "through a lot of work [...] I've got over that fear. I'm going to learn as I go. The thing that's changed about me is I have no interest in hanging out with somebody that I don't know or somebody that I'm not that into."
He even quipped that "the next person I really take seriously is somebody that I'm going to be in love with and not be scared by the things that used to scare me." He then said that he was looking for "somebody who's self-supporting."
"In every way, but monetarily especially because I got burned a few times by women who wanted my money, not really caring about me," he added. "A sense of humor, beautiful inside and out, caring. This is really important, somebody who can have a back and forth with me."
He was even looking forward to becoming a parent. As a father, he said: "I think I'd be great. I really do. I grew up with a lot of little kids around me, and that's probably why, but I can't wait."
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