Boy Meets World alum Will Friedle tried to buy a piece of the late Matthew Perry’s memorabilia collection.
“I saw an email, just like a mass email saying they’re selling Matthew Perry’s estate [and his belongings are] being auctioned off, like all of his stuff,” Friedle, 49, said on Thursday, July 9, episode of his “Pod Meets World” podcast, revealing he recently began regularly browsing the Heritage Auctions website. “He was a big Batman fan.”
Friedle, who voiced Terry McGinnis/Batman in the animated series Batman Beyond, further revealed that he wanted “something Matthew Perry [owned] that was Batman-related.”
“There’s a couple of things I was going to bid on and I couldn’t make it work,” he noted on Thursday. “I was so pissed I couldn’t make it work.”
Heritage Auctions launched a charity sale last month, selling the late Friends star’s belongings to benefit his namesake The Matthew Perry Foundation. (Perry’s family launched the nonprofit to support individuals battling addiction after Perry’s death in 2023.)
“Matthew Perry was someone people felt they truly knew. Through his work and his honesty, he built a connection with audiences around the world that went far beyond the screen,” Heritage Auction’s executive vice president, Joe Maddalena, wrote in a May statement. “This auction brings together the personal items and passions that shaped his life, offering fans a meaningful way to connect with his story.”
The press release added, “More importantly, it allows that connection to do real good, supporting the Matthew Perry Foundation and continuing his mission to help others facing addiction. It’s a powerful way for his legacy to live on and bring people together in support of something that mattered deeply to him.”
All proceeds from the auction went directly to the Matthew Perry Foundation.
“Matthew believed addiction should be met with compassion and science, not stigma and silence,” the nonprofit’s CEO, Lisa Kasteler Calio, said in a separate statement. “This auction fuels the Foundation’s work to expand access to evidence-based care and confront stigma. It is one more way we ensure that no one has to fight this disease alone.”
In addition to Perry’s Batman collection, the auction also sold Friends scripts, the 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award Perry won and artwork created by renowned artists Banksy and Mel Bochner. Warner Bros. also donated two tickets to the 2027 premiere of Robert Pattinson’s The Batman II.
Us Weekly confirmed in October 2023 that Perry died at the age of 54, which officials later ruled the circumstances as accidental from acute effects of ketamine. Drowning, coronary artery disease and effects of buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid use, were also contributing factors of the comedic actor’s death.
