Five months removed from his tragic passing, Maeve Quinlan (ex-Megan Conley, The Bold and the Beautiful) is finally opening up about the Matthew Perry that she knew and loved.

Maeve Quinlan Remembers Matthew Perry

“We lived at 999 Doheny Drive in L.A…but I never knew his name, so he became known to me as Cute Guy By The Elevator,” mused Quinlan to Soap Opera Digest. “We would always run into each other at the same time, usually when I was coming back from an acting class or a night out.”

The two made each other’s acquaintance one night while both were out on the town, she with a gaggle of girlfriends, he with an entourage of fellow thespians who’d just filmed a pilot.

One week later, another run-in, this time in their shared apartment building. Relayed Quinlan: “As we stepped into the elevator, he gave me his name and I asked, ‘So what’s the name of your pilot?’ He said, ‘It’s called Friends Like Us.’ And I was like, ‘Cool. Good thoughts, I hope it goes. I’ll look out for it.’ As the elevator doors opened on my floor and I stepped out, he held the doors opened and kindly asked, ‘Wait, how’s acting going for you?’ I told him I had done two Super Bowl commercials and a day on The Bold and the Beautiful, but so far that was it. He said, ‘I bet Bold and Beautiful brings you back. Love the name.’

“The doors shut and I never saw Cute Guy By The Elevator again — until six months later [when] I turned on the TV on a Thursday night. There he was, on a show now called Friends, and not Friends Like Us. I yelled at my roommate, ‘That’s “Cute Guy By The Elevator”!’ And there on this new show were the castmates he was out with that night.”

In 2002, the twosome reconnected at a charity tennis event and, according to Quinlan, “got on like a house on fire.” Soon they were a romantic item.

“When Matthew and I embarked on a romantic relationship he was 100 percent sober and was very open about his previous struggles,” stressed the actress. “That was his one fully sober year, and we were practically inseparable. One of the reasons he liked being with me was that I didn’t do drugs.”

In time, amour cooled and, “we morphed into eventually and seamlessly just being best friends, like brother and sister…I spent a lot of time with him and with both sides of his family and he with mine. He was a great son and a really proud big brother. He loved my family, too, and was especially adorable with my now late mother.”

“I had no idea how much he was internally struggling because his main focus was always making other people happy and laughing. He really thought the fame would make it all better but it didn’t.”

Quinlan went on to confide that, “In the last few years, [Perry] would not even try and reach out..A mutual friend gave me his book (Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing)and she said, ‘If you read it, please call and tell him that you’re proud of him.’ I read the book and I was beyond shocked and devastated..I regret to this day that I did not call Matthew to tell him I was proud of him. It took a lot of guts and bravery for him to write that book and be so brutally honest…Never make my mistake. Always call the ones you love, and often, most especially when they need to hear that most.”

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