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Tina Campbell

Friends director James Burrows says Matthew Perry’s castmates were ‘destroyed’ by his death

Friends director James Burrows has given an insight into how the Friends cast are holding up following Matthew Perry’s death.

Burrows, 82, who directed the first four episodes of the hit 90s sitcom, said that upon hearing of Perry's passing, he reached out to some of the show’s cast – Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow.“I had to have a couple of days to just let it soak in,” Burrows told the Today show on Thursday. “He was part of a family and he was the first one to not be part of that family anymore.”

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