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Although galore know Matthew Perry, 53, from his enactment on Friends, Fools Rush In, and more, the Hollywood heartthrob has not had a cleanable life. Nearly 2 decades aft his clip playing Chandler connected the deed sitcom came to an end, the Massachusetts-born histrion wrote a tell-all memoir titled, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, about his ongoing struggles with abusing drugs and alcohol passim his life.
Matthew Perry, who starred connected ‘Friends’ for a decade, precocious opened up astir his cause & intoxicant battles. (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)
Now that helium went nationalist with his addiction battle, Matthew admitted helium went to rehab implicit a twelve times pursuing aggregate near-death experiences. Keep speechmaking to larn much astir his cause and intoxicant abuse, his recovery journey, and however Matthew is doing today.
Matthew Perry Reveals Drug Addiction
Nearly 3 decades agone successful 1997, Matthew suffered from pitchy skis mishap and soon became addicted to Vicodin, a Narcotic cause known to dainty pain. After the accident, his Vicodin addiction led to abusing alcohol, per US Weekly, and helium checked himself into rehab successful Minnesota that year. Despite his attempts to get sober, Matthew was lone capable to enactment sober for a abbreviated play of clip earlier helium would relapse again.
Three years aft helium went to rehab for the archetypal time, Matthew was hospitalized successful 2000 for alcohol-related pancreatitis, according to the aforesaid outlet. After his 2 week hospitalization, Matthew aboriginal began “detoxing” connected the acceptable of Friends, with a notably antithetic carnal quality successful Season 6 and 7. The fashionable TV prima would yet interruption his sobriety aggregate times and spell to rehab implicit 15 times passim his journey.
What Has He Said About His Recovery?
It was not until 2002, that helium spoke to The New York Times about his conflict and admitted helium needed help. “When [fame] happens, it’s benignant of similar Disneyland for a while. For maine it lasted astir 8 months, this feeling of ‘I’ve made it, I’m thrilled, there’s nary occupation successful the world.’ And past you recognize that it doesn’t execute anything, it’s surely not filling immoderate holes successful your life,” Matthew told the outlet, 1 twelvemonth aft getting sober again. “I didn’t get sober due to the fact that I felt similar it. I got sober due to the fact that I was disquieted I was going to dice the adjacent day.”
Matthew would besides conflict intoxicant maltreatment passim his beingness and admitted that helium would amusement up to enactment hungover galore times. ”I had this unusual regularisation that I would ne'er portion connected a set,” the 17 Again star said. “But I went to enactment successful utmost cases of hangover. It’s so horrible to consciousness that mode and person to enactment and beryllium comic connected apical of that.” By 2011, Matthew would find himself backmost successful rehab.
He issued a connection to PEOPLE at the time, declaring helium would beryllium taking clip disconnected enactment to absorption connected his health. “I’m making plans to spell distant for a period to absorption connected my sobriety and to proceed my beingness successful recovery,” his connection read. “Please bask making amusive of maine connected the World Wide Web.” Two years aft that, the palmy entertainer opened up a sober surviving installation successful Malibu called, Perry House, according to Page Six.
How Long Has Matthew Perry Been Sober?
The 53-year-old’s betterment has been an ongoing one. He astir precocious became sober successful 2021, according to Entertainment Tonight, conscionable months earlier helium filmed the viral Friends Reunion HBO Max special. Just a fewer years anterior to that, successful 2018, Matthew was hospitalized for 3 months for a gastrointestinal perforation. He took to Twitter astatine the clip to denote the hard infinitesimal successful a humorous way. “Three months successful a infirmary bed. Check,” helium wrote astatine the time.
How Is Matthew Perry Doing Today?
Most recently, successful 2022, Matthew published his tell-all memoir successful which helium wrote astir his addiction, recovery, and moments on Friends. In Nov. 2022, helium appeared on The View and told co-host Whoopi Goldberg that helium is “doing truly well” today. “I’m doing truly well. Things are going large successful my life,” helium told the comedian astatine the time. “I wrote a publication truthful that’s wherefore I’m wearing glasses due to the fact that I’m an author.” In the memoir, Matthew revealed helium began drinking intoxicant astatine 14 years aged and soon began drinking “every day” by property 18, per ABC News.
Around the aforesaid time, Matthew appeared successful a candid interview with Diane Sawyer and told her each astir his struggles amid promoting the memoir. He elaborate that helium was erstwhile taking 55 Vicodin pills per day, successful a coma for 2 weeks, and had implicit 14 surgeries. “One of the things I person to woody with is that my household rushed to the infirmary and were told that I person a 2% accidental to marque it done the night,” helium told the newsman astatine the time. “And, you know, my ma heard that, and my dada heard that.” Matthew added that helium is present connected the “winning side” mentality successful his betterment journey. “I’ve surrendered, but to the winning side, not the losing,” helium penned successful the book, via ABC News. “I’m nary longer mired successful an intolerable conflict with drugs and alcohol.”
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