Matt LeBlanc has dismissed claims he is retiring from appearing, branding the rumors “garbage”.
RadarOnline.com can reveal the previous Mates star, 57, has develop into a “recluse” because the tragic passing of former co-star and shut pal Matthew Perry final October.
However in line with the Every day Mirror, his agent has blasted the give up discuss as “garbage”.
A supply had beforehand claimed Perry’s passing had made LeBlanc “rethink” his personal life decisions.
An insider informed the DailyMail: “Such an vital a part of (Matt’s) life and a superb good friend is gone. It has made him rethink his life.
“He needs to give attention to different pursuits as that is what is vital to him proper now.
“He would want the proper alternative to return in entrance of the digital camera for any function in TV and movie as he has silently retired.
“He’s financially secure and does not actually need to be within the limelight anymore.”
One in every of LeBlanc’s final TV appearances was in 2021, when he took half within the HBO Mates’ Reunion particular, which introduced him again along with co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Perry.
The castmates stated in a joint assertion within the wake of Perry’s demise: “We’re all so completely devastated by the lack of Matthew.
“We have been extra than simply solid mates. We’re a household. There’s a lot to say, however proper now we’re going to take a second to grieve and course of this unfathomable loss.”
RadarOnline.com revealed on Wednesday LeBlanc’s co-stars Aniston and Cox have been recurrently checking in on him, after he was hit hardest by Perry’s drug-fuelled demise.
A supply stated Aniston has “been spending numerous time with Matt at his dwelling… cooking for him, or simply hanging out and watching motion pictures, or sitting and chatting.
“She’s even stayed over a few occasions. And each she and Courteney have been involved to make sure not less than one among them is round to keep watch over him.”
In addition to being buddies with Perry on the hit sitcom, the pair have been shut in actual life and have been neighbours across the time of the Chandler Bing star’s passing, each residing in Pacific Palisades.
Whereas the actor, price a reported $85million, by no means must work once more, mates are reportedly anxious that with out a venture to give attention to, grief might devour him.
This is not the primary time LeBlanc has attracted concern for not being seen in public typically.
He beforehand informed an interviewer in 2012 he’s extra introverted than his character of Joey Tribbiani who made him so well-known.
He stated: “Individuals will at all times ask me if I am all proper, as a result of I am way more low-key and reserved than my character in Mates.
“They assume that I am depressed, or I am unhappy or upset – however I am simply not amped as much as exit in entrance of an viewers and do a TV present. That is not who I’m.”
Perry died on October 28 final yr at age 54 after being discovered unresponsive within the sizzling tub of his LA dwelling.
His demise was decided to have been brought on by “acute results of ketamine”.
In August, 5 folks have been arrested in connection to his demise – supplying him with medicine that led to his overdose.