Brian Austin Green is finally ready to speak publicly about the loss of Luke Perry.
Green appeared on the podcast, “Comfort Food with Kelly Rizzo”, where he discussed the death of his friend and “Beverly Hills, 90210” costar in 2019 to a stroke.
“There was absolutely a part of me that was really upset and disappointed, of course, that it was as serious,” Green told the program. "Because people have strokes all the time. People don't die from strokes all the time. And he was 52 years old at that point. He was young. So normally people go through strokes and then they recover. It takes years sometimes too, you know, but they recover from them."
Green then offered up an intriguing way of looking at Perry’s death, and what it would have meant if he continued living after his stroke.
"And I knew there was a part of me with him, with the loss of him, where I felt like maybe that was the best thing to happen for him because... Luke took pride in who he was," he said. "He was very quick-witted. He was very kind. He was very generous. And to have to not have any of those, any of those things missing at all would have so severely affected him."
Green went on to say having years in recovery for Perry would have been “really, really difficult for him.”
“He either had to be 100% or not. There was no middle ground,” he said.
Perry passed in March of 2019 after suffering a stroke at the age of 52.