Matthew Perry spent his final hours playing in a pickleball match before he was found dead at his LA home: coach

Natalie Musumeci
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  • Matthew Perry was playing pickleball in the hours before he was found dead at his California home, a report said.

  • Perry's coach told People magazine he heard that Perry was "doing really well on court" on Saturday.

  • The "Friends" star was reportedly found dead in the hot tub at his Pacific Palisades home at around 4 p.m. Saturday.

Matthew Perry was playing pickleball just hours before the "Friends" star was found dead at his California home over the weekend, according to a report.

Perry's personal pickleball coach, Matt Manasse, told People magazine that the 54-year-old actor played the popular sport with another coach on Saturday at the private Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles and heard Perry was "doing really well."

Manasse said the other pickleball coach told him that Perry had "come out" on Saturday morning and added, "She didn't say how long but said he'd been doing really well on court, which wasn't a surprise."

Hours later at around 4 p.m. on Saturday, Perry was found dead in a hot tub at his home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to multiple reports. His cause of death has not yet been determined. Police dispatch audio obtained by TMZ referenced a "drowning" after Perry's death.

According to Manasse, Perry was an avid pickleball player and used the sport as an outlet to help with his addiction recovery process, as well as others'.

"He had so much that he was doing with his rehab facility and trying to get people clean," Manasse told People. "He would bring them to teach them pickleball. He was just always trying to help people."

Perry, who was open about his recovery from addiction to alcohol and opiates, thought pickleball "was something that could help with his recovery and he was doing an awesome job," Manasse said.

"He loved it. He came out five times a week, would always talk about it," Manasse told People.

Manasse noted, "When he hit an unbelievable shot, he would tell you about it for days."

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