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Matthew Perry is constant to share candid moments from his lengthy journey to sobriety and the struggles he endured throughout his run on NBC’s “Friends” whereas yoyo-ing between addictions to Vicodin and alcohol.
In an excerpt from his new e book “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” Perry recounts how a go to from costar Jennifer Aniston to his trailer made him notice that his secret habits when it got here to alcohol wasn’t so secret.
“‘I know you’re drinking,’ she said,” Perry, now 53, writes within the memoir, in an excerpt printed by the Times of London.
“I had long since gotten over her – ever since she started dating Brad Pitt, I was fine – and had worked out exactly how long to look at her without it being awkward, but still, to be confronted by Jennifer Aniston was devastating. And I was confused,” he continued.
“‘How can you tell?’ I said. I never worked drunk. ‘I’ve been trying to hide it …’”
Elsewhere within the excerpt, Perry talked about how he “never” labored excessive or drunk (though he “certainly worked hungover”), and he mentioned he was largely in a position to perform as a part of the uber-successful “Friends” ensemble because of his castmates and how they might “group around [him] and prop [him] up” like an injured penguin being supported by the opposite penguins.
“I was the injured penguin, but I was determined to not let these wonderful people, and this show, down,” he wrote.
But that day in Perry’s trailer, Aniston informed him plainly that he wasn’t getting away with something.
“‘We can smell it,’ she said, in a kind of weird but loving way, and the plural ‘we’ hit me like a sledgehammer,” Perry wrote.
“‘I know I’m drinking too much,’ I said, ‘but I don’t exactly know what to do about it.’”
The “Whole Nine Yards” star additionally describes within the new e book how his weight fluctuated wildly because of the capsules making him sick and assuaging his urge for food, or alcohol inflicting him to be bloated.
“You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season – when I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee, it’s lots of pills.”
Perry even referenced particular factors within the hit present’s 10-season run and clued readers in to what was occurring with his dependancy at the moment.
“By the end of season three, I was spending most of my time figuring out how to get 55 Vicodin a day – I had to have 55 every day, otherwise I’d get so sick. It was a full-time job: making calls, seeing doctors, faking migraines, finding crooked nurses who would give me what I needed,” Perry wrote.
The actor recently said he’s lastly able to share his experiences now that he’s safely on the opposite aspect of dependancy.
“I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again,” Perry informed People of the e book. “I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober – and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction – to write it all down. And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people.”
“Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” by Matthew Perry, will probably be printed by Headline on November 1.