Elizabeth Hurley Admits Matthew Perry Was A ‘Nightmare’ To Work With Before Seeking Treatment

Matthew Perry was a “nightmare” to enactment with earlier seeking attraction for assorted addictions, supermodel Elizabeth Hurley admits. “I person precise fond memories of him,” the stunning actress, 57, told Yahoo! Entertainment pursuing the Friends‘ actor’s revelations to Diane Sawyer about moving connected a 2002 film. “To beryllium honest, it was a nightmare moving with him astatine that clip and, arsenic it’s present known, our movie was unopen down due to the fact that of his addiction. We were successful a unit majeure and had to each beryllium astatine location twiddling our thumbs for immoderate time.”

Liz Hurley and Matthew Perry successful 2002. (Shutterstock)

Matthew, 53, and the Austin Powers quality memorably starred unneurotic successful the 2003 comedy Serving Sara. But portion promoting his publication Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir, the Friends star confessed that he’d been hard connected the acceptable of the film. “It was changeable successful Dallas and I was doing Friends astatine the aforesaid time, truthful it doubled my workload,” helium told Diane during a raw interrogation aired successful October. “And I was flying connected a backstage pitchy drinking vodka retired of a h2o bottle. I weighed 155 pounds, connected my mode to 128 pounds. I consciousness excessively atrocious for that guy, he’s going done excessively much, and it’s me. And I retrieve that, and I didn’t recognize what was going on. But again, I’m sorry, and I’m truthful grateful to not beryllium that anymore.”

Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley look successful a promotional inactive for ‘Serving Sara’ (Everett Collection )

Hurley recalled that the film’s director, Reginald Hudlin, was “pissed off” erstwhile the accumulation unopen down. “That was a small tough, but helium came backmost and helium was fabulous,” she said, adding that Matthew had to “revoice everything” that had been antecedently filmed. Still, Elizabeth intelligibly liked the beloved sitcom prima and had compassion for his plight. “It was tough, evidently helium was having a pugnacious time, but helium was inactive precise charming and a beauteous idiosyncratic to enactment with,” she told the outlet for the November 9 interview. “But you could spot helium was suffering for sure.”

Matthew’s book, which deed shelves connected November 1, contained a fig of eyebrow raising admissions, including a propensity to steal pills from unfastened houses, a unsighted hatred for Keanu Reeves and a concealed crush connected costar Jennifer Aniston.