5 MINUTES AGO: Jennifer Aniston CAUGHT BREAKING DOWN Over Mathew Perry Passing Away

Jennifer Aniston broke her silence this week on the sudden death of her beloved Friends co-star Matthew Perry, RadarOnline.com can report.

Aniston’s statement to Instagram on Wednesday came nearly three weeks after Perry was found dead in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home.

SOURCE: MEGASources claim Aniston wants Perry’s legacy to focus on the ‘joy he brought into the world.’

“Oh boy this one has cut deep… Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before,” the 54-year-old actress wrote. “We all experience loss at some point in our lives. Loss of life or loss of love. Being able to really SIT in this grief allows you to feel the moments of joy and gratitude for having loved someone that deep.”

“And we loved him deeply,” Aniston continued. “He was such a part of our DNA. We were always the 6 of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be.”

“For Matty, he KNEW he loved to make people laugh,” she said. “As he said himself, if he didn’t hear the ‘laugh’ he thought he was going to die. His life literally depended on it. And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh. And laugh hard.”

Aniston also revealed a text she and Perry exchanged before his heartbreaking passing late last month.

“In the last couple weeks, I’ve been pouring over our texts to one another,” she revealed. “Laughing and crying then laughing again. I’ll keep them forever and ever. I found one text that he sent me out of nowhere one day. It says it all.”

Aniston included a screenshot of her and Perry’s text exchange in which he wrote to her, “Making you laugh just made my day. It made my day :)”

“Awww the first of THOUSANDS of times…” she responded alongside a photo of the pair from behind-the-scenes of Friends.

Aniston then concluded her touching tribute to Perry by referring to the late actor as her “little brother” and thanking him for always “making her day.”

SOURCE: MEGASources claimed Aniston’s friends fear Mayer used Matthew Perry’s death to get back into Aniston’s life.