Kathleen Turner remembers her Friends son Matthew Perry: 'It's extremely sad'

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Kathleen Turner remembers her Friends son Matthew Perry: 'It's extremely sad'

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Turner, who had a three-episode stint on Friends as the parent of Perry's Chandler Bing, said in a statement shared with EW, that she "was proud to play his 'Dad.'"

Turner and Perry communicated in the years after Friends, and the actress told PEOPLE he continued to jokingly call her "Dad.

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"He came to see one of my Broadway shows, and he came backstage," Turner told the outlet. "When he saw me, he yelled out, 'Hey Dad,' and everyone thought it was pretty cool."

The Oscar-nominated actress played Chandler's parent, a transgender woman named Helena.

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