It’s exhausting to imagine that it has been nearly two years since Matthew Perry’s tragic and unintentional demise at age 54. Previous co-stars, followers and all linked to Perry had been in shock on the information and continued to be with the unfolding of updates surrounding his demise, together with Peacock’s latest doc. However with the entire unhappy particulars which have come to gentle, many candy remembrances have adopted, together with Buddies vet Maggie Wheeler, who performed the incomparable Janice Hosenstein. The fictional on-again off-again girlfriend of Chandler Bing opened up about nonetheless lacking him whereas additionally revealing a small however connecting taking place between the 2 after the 2023 information.
Whereas it’s been a very long time since we’ve seen Janice onscreen, Wheeler voiced a personality within the 2025 film information kid-flick Canine Man. Whereas a visitor on Nonetheless Right here Hollywood with Steve Kmetko, she talked about her staple spot on Buddies (now streamable with a Max subscription). However when Kmetko launched into asking about working with Perry, the Father or mother Lure alum shared that she missed him and her brother (whom she additionally misplaced to habit). Together with the admittance, she shared an opportunity encounter across the time of the late Buddies star’s passing, which she believes to have been his spirit responding to her. In her phrases, through YouTube:
Yeah, I miss them each. I do. There was an unimaginable second – I have not talked about this anyplace – however you already know, when you imagine in these sorts of issues. A lot of folks discuss spirits exhibiting up as birds and, you already know, different issues that form of ship a message when somebody passes. And after Matthew died, I used to be in a neighbor’s pool, and I used to be alone, and there was no person else round. And I used to be on my again, and I used to be enthusiastic about my brother. And I stated, you already know, ‘Look out for him,’ and two hawks flew over my head and flew previous me. One circled round and got here and acquired the opposite one, and it flew previous me. In order that was a stupendous second, when you go for that form of stuff.
What a particular and candy second of connection Wheeler discovered within the aftermath of Perry’s passing. It’s one factor to have misplaced one individual, however two to the same destiny is heartbreaking. And as she mentions within the dialog, no matter the place somebody is of their battle with habit, it’s nonetheless a shock when somebody passes. Studying that she skilled a quiet second the place she felt her previous peer’s spirit be careful for her and her household should have been a pleasant consolation to her then.
From the entire healthful tales of the 17 Once more alum, together with Marlo Thomas’s small however candy first interactions to saving John Stamos from embarrassment and even Paul Rudd recalling being included on set, I’m not shocked Wheeler felt him in that manner. Despite the fact that he struggled with habit all through his profession, he was at all times ready on the Buddies set, in response to the Janice actress. She spoke to his simple comedy expertise, noting that’s why she created that wild snort (that snort is what led to why Janice turned a recurring character).
For sure, Maggie Wheeler and Matthew Perry’s friendship that began on Buddies was a long-lasting and particular one.