Matthew Perry said that it was “annihilating” when “Friends” costar Jennifer Aniston defied him about his liquor habit on the arrangement of the hit sitcom.
In his memoir named “Friends, Sweethearts, and the Enormous Horrible Thing,” delivered on Tuesday, Perry definite his ascent to distinction and years-long battles with liquor abuse and illicit drug use. The entertainer most remarkably played the snide Chandler Bing on “Friends,” which ran for 10 seasons somewhere in the range of 1994 and 2004.
Perry said that he “was never high while I was working,” yet he uncovered that season nine was “the main year I was totally level-headed for a ‘Friends’ season.” It was likewise the main season he was designated for an Emmy for the best actor in a comedy.
“You can follow the direction of my habit assuming that you measure my weight from one season to another — while I’m conveying weight, it’s liquor; when I’m thin, it’s pills. At the point when I have a goatee, it’s bunches of pills,” he said.
Perry said that he got pancreatitis when he was 30 years of age and burned through “30 days and evenings” in the medical clinic, being taken care of liquids through an IV.
He said that he was “high and cheerful” and marked the agreement for seasons six and seven of “Friends” with “a taking care of cylinder in my arm and Dilaudid moving through my cerebrum.”
Perry expressed that in the wake of leaving the clinic, he continued utilizing Vicodin and drinking.
“I returned for the following time of ‘Friends’ extremely excited, and everybody realize that something must be finished,” he said.
Perry said that one day, Aniston (Rachel Green), who he previously had a crush on, went to his trailer and told him, “I know you’re drinking.”
“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,” Perry wrote. “And I was confused.”
The “17 Again” star asked Aniston how she could tell that he wasn’t sober since he “never worked drunk” and had been trying to hide his addictions from the cast and crew.
“‘We can smell it,’ she said, in a kind of weird but loving way, and the plural ‘we’ hit me like a sledgehammer,” Perry said.
In his book, Perry said that he “never worked high, yet I unquestionably worked hungover” and would require somebody to drive him to set.
The entertainer said that despite the fact that individuals got on to his addictions, the show was excessively fruitful to be wrecked by his undesirable propensities.
“Everybody would inquire as to whether I was okay, however, no one needed to stop the ‘Companions’ train since it was such a cash cow, and I just regretted it,” he said.
