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Jennifer Aniston will always be there for Matthew Perry .

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Over a year after her "Friends" costar died at 54 in his California home, the actor reflected on how she and the other core cast members — including Lisa Kudrow , Courteney Cox , Matt Leblanc , and David Schwimmer — tried to help him fight his battle with addiction.

“We did everything we could when we could,” Aniston, 56, told Vanity Fair in an interview published on August 11. “But it almost felt like we’d been mourning Matthew for a long time because his battle with that disease was a really hard one for him to fight. ”

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