Matthew Perry Reveals How Jennifer Aniston , Confronted Him Over His Substance Abuse.
Matthew Perry Reveals How Jennifer Aniston , Confronted Him Over His Substance Abuse.
CNN reports that in his new book, 'Friends, Lovers and
the Big Terrible Thing,' Perry shares how his former
co-star, Aniston, called him out about drinking alcohol. .
CNN reports that in his new book, 'Friends, Lovers and
the Big Terrible Thing,' Perry shares how his former
co-star, Aniston, called him out about drinking alcohol. .
‘I know you’re drinking,’ she said.
‘How can you tell?’ I said.
I never worked drunk.
‘I’ve been trying to hide it …’, Matthew Perry, via 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.
‘We can smell it,’ she said, in a kind of weird but loving way, and the plural ‘we’ hit me like a sledgehammer, Matthew Perry, via 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.
Perry says he told Aniston, "I know I'm drinking too much, but I don't exactly know what to do about it.".
Perry goes on to talk about the
struggles he had with Vicodin too.
You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season – when I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee,
it’s lots of pills, Matthew Perry, via 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.
You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season – when I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee,
it’s lots of pills, Matthew Perry, via 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.
By the end of season three, I was spending most of my time figuring out how to get 55 Vicodin a day –
I had to have 55 every day, otherwise I’d get so sick.
It was a full-time job: making calls, seeing doctors, faking migraines, finding crooked nurses who
would give me what I needed, Matthew Perry, via 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.
When speaking about the book, Perry explained
why he wanted to share his story now.
I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again. I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober – and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction – to write it all down. And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that
it would help people, Matthew Perry, via CNN