![]() ![]() He later explained that although he said he never used drugs or abused alcohol while on set, he was almost always, “painfully hungover". So, none of those somewhere between season three and six." "I think the answer is, I don't remember three years of it. In an interview with the BBC three years ago, he was asked which episode of the sitcom was his least favourite. Matthew has admitted to being so out of that even his glory days on Friends are a little blurry. “You get a whole new respect for yourself and life when you go through something that difficult."īut his sobriety was short-lived and by 2001 he was back in rehab – but not before a two-week stint in hospital for treatment for acute pancreatitis, a condition caused by alcohol and prescription drug abuse. In 1997, he made his first trip to rehab and later described his stay as "the scariest thing that's ever happened to me”. I wasn't a bull-in-a-china-shop kind of drinker." It was going on before Friends, but it's a progressive disease. It was actually a very lonely time for me because I was suffering from alcoholism. From an outsider's perspective, it would seem like I had it all. The six of us were just everywhere all the time. Things were further complicated by the success of Friends. ![]() I had a big problem with pills and alcohol, and I couldn't stop." "I did and I felt better than I ever felt in my entire life. 'Here, take this,'" he recalls the doctors telling him. The actor has been open about his past struggles, previously telling People things got “out of control and very unhealthy” after a 1997 jet-ski accident left him addicted to the painkiller Vicodin." Matthew has been through A LOT since friends wrapped up in 2004. “Let’s not use the Friends reunion to make fun of the way Matthew Perry looks these days,” one commented. “Hate to say it, but I’m sad and scared like hell for Matthew Perry,” a third remarked.īut others were quick to jump to the actor’s defence, pointing out that the actor had “struggled with addiction and been through so much”. “It pains me to see Matthew Perry like this, he just seems off, gazing at the void, speaking slowly,” another said. One user wrote: “Just saw People interview and can’t believe how Matthew Perry looks. The phrases “Matthew perry slurred” and “Matthew Perry speech” soon popped up as common search terms on Twitter. While speaking about what it was like to reunite with the cast, Matthew (51) had a slow reaction time, stammered over his words and stared off into the distance.Īnd when he was asked if he’d ever swiped a souvenir from the set, he appeared to slur. “I stole the cookie jar that had the clock on it,” he said, pronouncing “stole” as “shtole”. ![]()
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