Matthew Perry Says He Was High & ‘Felt Nothing’ During Emotional Series Finale Of ‘Friends’

Matthew Perry “felt nothing” aft filming the finale of Friends. The histrion admitted helium was emotionally numbed and precocious connected opiates during the NBC sitcom’s last days successful his publication Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir, where helium details his conflict with substance maltreatment and the value of fame.

“It was January 23, 2004,” helium remembers successful the book, which came retired Nov. 1. “The keys connected the counter, a feline who looked a batch similar Chandler Bing said, ‘Where?’ ‘Embryonic Journey’ by Jefferson Airplane played, the camera panned to the backmost of the flat door, past Ben, our archetypal AD, and precise adjacent friend, shouted for the past time, ‘That’s a wrap,’ and tears sprang from astir everyone’s eyes similar truthful galore geysers.”

Matthew Perry ‘felt nothing’ portion filming the finale of ‘Friends’. (Everett Collection)

“We had made 237 episodes, including this past one, called, appropriately enough, ‘The Last One.’ (Jennifer) Aniston was sobbing — aft a while, I was amazed she had immoderate h2o near successful her full body. Even Matt LeBlanc was crying.”

Matthew, however, felt hollow. “But I felt nothing,” helium goes connected successful the book. “I couldn’t archer if that was due to the fact that of the opioid buprenorphine I was taking, oregon if I was conscionable mostly dormant inside.” Though helium started taking buprenorphine arsenic a “detox med,” he’d been taking the notoriously difficult-to-withdraw-from cause for 8 months astatine that point.

The remainder was a daze. He remembered, “So, alternatively of sobbing, I took a dilatory locomotion astir the signifier with my then-girlfriend — besides appropriately called Rachel — signifier 24 astatine Warner Bros. successful Burbank (a signifier that aft the amusement ended would beryllium renamed “The Friends Stage.”) “We said our assorted goodbyes, agreeing to spot each different soon successful the mode that radical bash erstwhile they cognize it’s not true, and past we headed retired to my car.”

While the publication is afloat of intimate details, Matthew’s aged castmates are said to beryllium totally behind the star’s publication “Even aft each these years the formed inactive has a beardown consciousness of loyalty to each other,” a Friends insider told HollywoodLife exclusively. “Everyone’s been precise supportive of Matthew, sharing his story. It was ne'er going to beryllium immoderate archer each astir their lives, it was ever going to beryllium astir his travel done addiction and helium made definite they knew that earlier it came out.”