Lauren Graham‘s remembering her almost-boyfriend Matthew Perry … particularly, the final birthday present she ever acquired from him — and, it mirrored his personal ardour.

The actress opened up about her shut relationship with MP throughout a Q&A Friday on her “Have I Told You This Already?” e-book tour … calling Matthew not fairly a boyfriend although he acquired shut.

LG says she and Perry would fall out and in of one another’s lives fairly simply … including they occurred to reconnect final yr, months earlier than his untimely death.

Graham says MP even acquired her a birthday present … a pickleball set — not stunning given he hit the court docket for a two-hour pickleball session the morning he died from acute effects of ketamine.

In reality, Perry’s pickleball teacher — Matt Manasse — informed People he used the sport to stay away from drugs … so a paddle for his shut buddy holds simply that rather more significance.

Graham says the famed comedic actor additionally wrote a joke on the cardboard, encouraging her to “be older” … one other crack from an actor Graham says may make her snort till she cried.

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We broke the story … Perry’s was discovered unresponsive in his scorching tub in October and pronounced lifeless on the scene.

Within the aftermath, numerous tributes poured in with Lauren saying a number of weeks after Perry died she took solace in how his story may assist others like he all the time wished.