
During an appearance on the Today show on Wednesday alongside her co-creator David Crane, Marta Kauffman revealed that Perry was “in a really good place” when she spoke to him two weeks before he died on Saturday aged 54. “He seemed better than I had seen in a while. I was so thrilled to see that. He was emotionally in a good place. He looked good. He quit smoking…” When asked directly if the actor was clean at that time, Kauffman said, “He was sober.”