The good, the bad and the ugly. Matthew Perry didn’t hold back in his Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing memoir — recalling his high-profile romances, addiction woes and Friends highs and lows.
“People would be surprised to know that I have mostly been sober since 2001,” he wrote in the book, which hits shelves on Tuesday, November 1. “Save for about sixty or seventy little mishaps over the years.”
The Odd Couple alum revealed that he has been battling drugs and alcohol addiction for decades. In fact, he was given phenobarbital when he was a baby to stop his colicky cries, a barbiturate he would later turn to during his lower points.
“When these mishaps occur, if you want to be sober, which I always did, you’d be given drugs to help you along,” he explained. “What drug may you ask? You guessed it: phenobarbital!”
In 1997, Perry got hooked on Vicodin after a jet skiing accident during a film shoot. He later became addicted to OxyContin after surgery for a colon explosion, which almost cost him his life.
“It was almost certain at that point that I was going to die. Was I unlucky that my colon exploded? Or was I lucky that it happened in the one room in Southern California where they could do something about it?” the former Go On star wrote of the scary experience. “Either way, I now faced a seven-hour surgery, which at least gave all my loved ones ample time to race to the hospital. As they arrived they were each told, ‘Matthew has a two percent chance of making it through the night.’ Everyone was so wrought with emotion that some crumbled to the ground right there in the hospital lobby. I will have to live out the rest of my days knowing that my mother and others heard those words.”
His struggle to stay sober — as well as his personal demons — also plagued his love life, including his short-lived relationship with Julia Roberts.
“[Friends co-creator] Marta Kauffman approached me and said that I should probably send flowers to Julia Roberts. You mean the biggest-star-in-the-universe Julia Roberts? ‘Sure, great, why?’ I said,” Perry wrote while recalling how the romance began. “Turned out Julia had been offered the post–Super Bowl episode in season 2 and she would only do the show if she could be in my story line. Let me say that again—she would only do the show if she could be in my story line. (Was I having a good year or what?).”
While the two did date ahead of Roberts’ appearance on Friends in 1996, by April of that year, Perry announced he was single.
“Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me — why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unlovable,” the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip alum confessed in his book. “So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts. She might have considered herself slumming it with a TV guy, and TV guy was now breaking up with her.”
Perry’s addiction also influenced his career happiness, especially during the late ‘90s and early 2000s when he was playing Chandler Bing on Friends.
“Fast-forward to the hiatus between seasons five and six of Friends and I found myself filming The Whole Nine Yards, and sure enough, when it came out in early 2000, I had the number one TV show and the number one movie. Me? I was taking so many pills that I couldn’t leave my bedroom,” he recalled. “So, in a moment when you’d think Matthew Perry would be celebrating and being the toast of the town, I was just handling drug dealers and living in dark rooms and misery.”
After spending “upward of $7 million trying to get sober,” Perry has come out the other side and is clean. “I have been to six thousand AA meetings. (Not an exaggeration, more an educated guess.) I’ve been to rehab fifteen times,” he revealed. “I’ve been in a mental institution, gone to therapy twice a week for thirty years, been to death’s door.”
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Perry recalled hitting on a counselor named Catherine at a sober house, whom he described as “a beautiful blond woman to whom I had apparently proposed upon my arrival, so she probably wasn’t my biggest fan.” He clarified that he was “not kidding” about getting down on one knee, writing, “I had been so out of it when we’d arrived that I’d asked her to marry me, and then promptly fell down a flight of stairs.” Warner Bros Tv/Bright/Kauffman/Crane Pro/Kobal/Shutterstock
“The first thing that happened when I lapsed into a coma was that I aspirated into my breathing tube, vomiting ten days’ worth of toxic s--t directly into my lungs. My lungs didn’t like that very much — enter instant pneumonia — and that is when my colon exploded,” the Numb actor wrote of one of his scariest hospital visits. “Let me repeat for those in the back: my colon exploded! I’ve been accused of being full of s--t before, but this time I really was.” Following surgery, Perry’s loved ones were told that he was not “out of the woods yet” and things could get worse. “My family and friends were told that the only thing that could keep me alive short-term was an ECMO machine (ECMO stands for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation). The ECMO move is often called a Hail Mary — for a start, four patients that week at UCLA had been put on ECMO, and they all died,” he explained, noting that after being hooked up to the machine for “several hours” he was transferred to UCLA for further treatment. “I’m told that during my coma I was never left alone, not once — there was always a member of my family or a friend in the room with me. They held candlelight vigils; did prayer circles. Love was all around me. Eventually, my eyes magically opened,” he continued. “The first thing I saw was my mother. ‘What’s going on?’ I managed to croak. ‘Where the hell am I?’ The last thing I remembered was being in a car with Erin. ‘Your colon exploded,’ Mom said. With that information, I did what any comic actor might do: I rolled my eyes and went back to sleep.” Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock
“I came out screaming, and I didn’t stop screaming. For weeks. I was a colicky kid — my stomach was a problem from the very start,” he explained of his early childhood. “My parents were being driven crazy by the amount I was crying. Crazy? Concerned, so they hauled me off to a doctor.” Perry revealed that the doctors suggested he be given barbiturates to stop the crying. “It wasn’t that rare in the 1960s to slip the parents of a colicky child a major barbiturate. Some older doctors swore by it — and by it, I mean, prescribing a major barbiturate for a child that’s barely born who won’t stop crying,’” he wrote. He was later told by his family that when he was less than two months old he was given phenobarbital, which would help him sleep. “There are baby pictures of me where you can tell I’m just completely f--king zonked, nodding like an addict at the age of seven weeks. Which is oddly appropriate for a kid born the day after Woodstock ended, I guess,” Perry continued. The Serving Sara actor added: “Ironically, barbiturates and I have had a very strange relationship over the years. … Barbiturates calm you down as you try to get whatever other s--t is in your body out; and hey, I started taking one at thirty days old, so as an adult I just picked up where I’d left off. When I’m at a detox, I’m very needy and uncomfortable — I’m sorry to say I’m the worst patient in the world.” Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock
“I had my first drink when I was fourteen. I held off as long as I could. At this point I was hanging out a lot with two brothers, Chris and Brian Murray,” he recalled of his introduction to alcohol. “Somehow, since third grade we’d developed a way of talking that went, ‘Could it be any hotter?’ or ‘Could the teacher be any meaner?’ or ‘Could we be more in detention?’ — a cadence you might recognize if you’re a fan of Friends, or if you’ve noticed how America has been talking for the past couple of decades or so.” Perry remembered that the alcohol was “gone” after about fifteen minutes. “I was lying back in the grass and the mud, looking at the moon, surrounded by fresh Murray puke, and I realized that for the first time in my life, nothing bothered me. The world made sense; it wasn’t bent and crazy. I was complete, at peace. I had never been happier than in that moment,” he wrote. “This is the answer, I thought; this is what I’ve been missing. This must be how normal people feel all the time. I don’t have any problems. It is all gone. I don’t need attention. I am taken care of, I am fine.” Lynne Sladky/AP/Shutterstock
“I’m told, my father took me out of my car seat, handed me into my grandfather’s arms, and, with that, he quietly abandoned me and my mother. Then, Mom finally got out of our car, too, and me, my mom, and my grandfather stood listening to the waters hurtle over the Falls and roar into the Niagara Gorge and watched as my father sped away, forever,” Perry said of the moment his dad abandoned his family. “My father sped away, to God knows where. He didn’t come back from work that first day, nor the second. I was hoping he’d be home after three days, then maybe a week, then maybe a month, but after about six weeks I stopped hoping. I was too young to understand where California was, or what it meant to ‘go follow his dream of being an actor’ — what the f--k is an actor? And where the f--k is my dad?” The Deadly Relations actor’s father eventually became the face of Old Spice in the ‘80s, but he was still MIA in Perry’s life. “I saw his face more often on TV or in magazines than I did in reality. (Perhaps that’s why I became an actor.),” he wrote. Perry later revealed that his dad was “also a drinker” when he was growing up. “Dad taught me many good things, too. But he certainly taught me how to drink,” the Three to Tango star explained. “It’s still no accident that my drink of choice was a double vodka tonic, and my thought every time was, ‘This is the best thing that happened to me all day,’” he added, referring to the phrase his dad said after taking his first sip on the couch after work. Years later, his father took a “meaningful walk” and decided to quit drinking, Perry told his readers, noting it was not that easy for him to do the same. While the father-son duo had many ups and downs, the Kennedys After Camelot alum highlighted some of their good times in his book. “My dad has saved my life multiple times, too. When he helped me get to Marina del Rey (after Jamie Tarses had told me I was disappearing before her very eyes),” he wrote. “I was deathly afraid that I would never have fun again for the rest of my life.” Dave Allocca/Starpix/Shutterstock
“The list of geniuses who were ahead of their time is too long to detail here — suffice to say, near the top of any such list should be my costar in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, River Phoenix,” the Massachusetts native explained of the late actor. “This movie was my first job, and I’m acutely aware it would be a better story if the movie was a huge hit, but all that really matters is that I learned how to make a film, and I got to know River, who personified beauty in every way.” Perry remembered Phoenix as a man who “made you feel too comfortable to even be jealous of him.” The actors met shortly after Stand by Me came out, which was one of Phoenix’s biggest hits before his death in 1993 at age 23. “It was in Chicago, and on this movie, and with River Phoenix, that I fell deeply in love with acting — and the cherry on top of this deeply magical time was that River and I became firm friends,” he continued. “He and I drank beer and shot pool on North Rush Street (The Color of Money had just come out, and pool was the thing to do). We had a per diem; we flirted with girls, though that’s as far as it went for me because, well, you know.” The 17 Again actor reflected on his time with the Running on Empty star, writing, “River was a beautiful man, inside and out — too beautiful for this world, it turned out. It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down. … River was a better actor than me; I was funnier.” Perry later revealed: “I would sob again seven years later on Halloween 1993, when River died in front of the Viper Room in West Hollywood. (I heard the screaming from my apartment; went back to bed; woke up to the news.) After his passing, his mom wrote, in reference to drug use, ‘The spirits of [River’s] generation are being worn down,’ and by then, I was drinking every night.” Moviestore/Shutterstock
“Back in Ottawa, before I’d left, a girl had tried to have sex with me, but I was so nervous that I drank six beers beforehand and couldn’t perform. By then I’d been drinking for a few years,” Perry explained of his sex life as a teen. “I failed to make the correlation between the booze and my private parts not working. And no one could know about this — no one. So, I was walking around the planet thinking sex was something for other people.” When the Go On producer started dating Tricia Fisher, the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens, he had been carrying “impotence around with me like a great ugly secret, like I carried around everything else.” He recalled being ready to sleep with Tricia, but he was worried he couldn’t perform. “Nothing worked; nothing. Horrified yet again, I forsook the loving arms of Tricia Fisher and padded my slim, naked body over to a chair in the apartment,” he wrote. “I sat there, soft, and sad, my two hands cupped over my lap like a nun’s during Vespers, doing my best to cover my embarrassment and maybe a tear or two.” Tricia, however, didn’t give up on her man and eventually helped Perry overcome his bedroom problems. “She walked over to me, took my hand, led me back to bed, laid me down, and sure enough … sheer glory, for two whole minutes!” Perry recalled. “That night, by the dint of a miraculous universe and the ministrations of a beautiful young woman who deserved better, I finally first misplaced my virginity then lost it altogether, and impotence has not been part of my vocabulary since, just as she promised it wouldn’t be. Everything about me — at least physically — works just fine.” The Emmy nominee later noted that he and Tricia dated again “while Friends was at its peak” but it didn’t work out. “She didn’t abandon me, but old fears crept up, and I ended the relationship,” he revealed. Invision/AP/Shutterstock
“I fell madly in love with Valerie Bertinelli, who was clearly in a troubled marriage and truly getting off on two of the funniest guys on the planet adoring her and heaping their attention on her,” Perry claimed of his Sydney costar. “But for me, being on Sydney and playing the fool with Valerie was more than just fun — it was serious s--t. I was having to hide my love for her as we worked (this wouldn’t be the last time this happened), which was desperately difficult. My crush was crushing; not only was she way out of my league, but she was also married to one of the most famous rock stars on the planet, Eddie Van Halen.” The actor noted that his “feelings for Valerie were real,” revealing that he was “completely captivated” by her. He recalled harboring “elaborate fantasies about her leaving Eddie Van Halen and living out the rest of her days with me.” Perry later alleged that one night when Van Halen was “passed out” at his and Bertinelli’s home, the She’s Out of Control star made his move. “Valerie and I had a long, elaborate make-out session. It was happening — maybe she felt the same way I did,” he wrote of the moment. “I told her I had thought about doing that for a long time, and she had said it right back to me.” The following day, however, things went back to normal, according to Perry. “Valerie made no mention of what had happened and was behaving — as she should have been — like this was just a normal day. I quickly got the hint and also played the role I was supposed to, but inside I was devastated,” he wrote. J C Olivera/PictureGroup/Shutterstock; Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
Perry had to undergo surgery following the explosion of his bowel. While he was waiting for a second surgery, he turned to OxyContin to numb the pain — and his demons. “I told everyone I was in pain so I could get OxyContin. Pretty soon the 80 milligrams a day of OxyContin I had conned them into giving me wasn’t working anymore, and I needed more,” he recalled. “When I asked the doctors for more, they said no; when I called a drug dealer, he said yes.” The Whole Ten Yards actor remembered trying to make it down 40 floors from his penthouse to score without being spotted — but he failed time and time again. The desire to get high led to another rehab stay, this time while wearing a colostomy bag until he could have surgery. “What this meant was that I had to go to a rehab in New York, quit OxyContin, and quit smoking, simultaneously, and I was scared,” he wrote, noting how much he hated the treatment facility. Perry later opened up about why he never got hooked on heroin, instead staying loyal to OxyContin for years. “I would have loved heroin — it was my opiate addiction on steroids. I’ve often said that taking OxyContin is like replacing your blood with warm honey. But with heroin, I would imagine, you are the honey,” he revealed. “I loved the feeling of opiates, but something about the word ‘heroin’ always scared me. And it is because of that fear that I am still alive today.” The star concluded: “There are two kinds of drug addicts, the ones who want to go up, and the ones who want to go down. I could never understand the coke guys — why would anyone want to feel more present, more busy? I was a downer guy, I wanted to melt into my couch and feel wonderful while watching movies over and over again. I was a quiet addict, not the bull-in-a-china-shop kind.” Invision/AP/Shutterstock
“Jennifer and I had met through mutual acquaintances about three years earlier. I was immediately taken by her (how could I not be?) and liked her, and I got the sense she was intrigued, too — maybe it was going to be something. Back then I got two jobs in one day — one was Haywire, an America’s Funniest Home Videos–type show, and the other was a sitcom,” Perry said of his Friends costar. “So I called Jennifer and I said, ‘You’re the first person I wanted to tell this to!’ Bad idea — I could feel ice forming through the phone. Looking back, it was clear that this made her think I liked her too much, or in the wrong kind of way … and I only compounded the error by then asking her out. She declined (which made it very difficult to actually go out with her), but said that she’d love to be friends with me, and I compounded the compound by blurting, ‘We can’t be friends!’” He continued: “Now, a few years later, ironically we were friends. Fortunately, even though I was still attracted to her and thought she was so great, that first day we were able to sail right past the past and focus on the fact that we had both gotten the best job Hollywood had to offer.” During their time on the NBC sitcom, Perry recalled Aniston learning that he was drinking and proceeded to call him out. “To be confronted by Jennifer Aniston was devastating. And I was confused. ‘How can you tell?’ I said. I never worked drunk. ‘I’ve been trying to hide it,’” he wrote, detailing the encounter. “’We can smell it,’ she said, in a kind of weird but loving way, and the plural ‘we’ hit me like a sledgehammer. ‘I know I’m drinking too much,’ I said, ‘but I don’t exactly know what to do about it.’” Perry eventually brought a sober companion to set, but admitted “it wasn’t really helping.” Things came to a head when he took medication after being drunk the night before and did a run through with the cast not realizing how wasted he was. “I didn’t know that I was wasted, but I was slurring. Folks couldn’t understand a word that came out of my mouth. But I had no idea. Once again, I went back to my dressing room and everybody from the show was there,” he explained. “’What are you going to do, Matty?’ they said. ‘It’s medication, I’ll fix it. I’m sorry.’ I didn’t drink that night and the next day I showed up to work, but I was on thin ice. I called my manager. ‘Yeah,’ he said, ‘They’re onto you.’” Bei/Shutterstock
Perry seemingly touched upon his failed engagement to Molly Hurwitz in the memoir. The New England native proposed to in November 2020 but called it quits six months later. “I bought her a ring because I was desperate that she would leave me. I didn’t want to be this injured and alone during Covid,” the actor wrote, hinting at his and Hurwitz’s romance. “I was high on 1,800 milligrams of hydrocodone when I asked her to marry me. I had even asked for her family’s blessing. Then I’d proposed, high as a kite. And on one knee. And she knew it, too. And she said yes.” He revealed that he called off the engagement amid his journey back to being sober. “Back in L.A. one more time, trying to sober up, I think, ‘Wait . . . how did I get engaged? There are dogs living in my house. How did this happen?” Perry continued. “I had asked her parents, begged for her hand while high, and put up with the dogs. That’s how scared I was of being abandoned.” During another section of the book, Perry seemingly revealed that he almost proposed to ex-girlfriend Rachel Dunn, although he didn’t give her name. “The two years of ‘friends with benefits’ had morphed into love. This was one of the most ‘normal’ periods of my life. True, occasionally I’d have little slips, taking maybe two OxyContin, from which I’d then have to detox for six days,” he wrote of the romance. “But the relationship had deepened to the point where there was now a question, I urgently needed to ask her. One day, I said, ‘I think we should stop kidding ourselves. We love each other,’ and she didn’t disagree. I did love her, very much.” The Home Free alum noted that the couple had “intimacy issues” amid their focus on their respective careers. “My fear of her leaving was still deeply in place, too, and who knows, perhaps she was scared of me leaving her. Nevertheless, the moment came. For Christmas, I’d paid a huge amount of money for an artist to paint the two of us,” he recalled. “I loved this woman, and I wanted her to know it. My plan was to give her the painting and then ask the question. You know the one; I don’t need to tell you how it goes, especially because … well, I never asked it.” Perry revealed that he did give her the gift but couldn’t muster up the courage to get down on one knee. “All my fears reared up like a snake, the snake I feared was coming to get me the year before I’d met her, the time when I’d seen God but managed to learn not enough from him. I immediately went into Chandler f--king Bing mode. ‘Hey, hey, hey!’ I said, to her consternation, ‘Look at this!’ bringing that f--king Chandler cadence back one last time,” he confessed. “I had missed the moment. Maybe she’d been expecting it, who knows. I’d been seconds away; seconds, and a lifetime. I often think if I’d asked, now we’d have two kids and a house with no view, who knows — I wouldn’t need the view, because I’d have her to look at; the kids, too. Instead, I’m some schmuck who’s alone in his house at 53, looking down at an unquiet ocean.” Jeff Roberson/AP/Shutterstock
“Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?” Perry asked in his book while talking about the death of Phoenix, who was a mutual friend of the Friends alum and Reeves. The author later took a jab at the Speed star when reflecting on the death of Chris Farley, who passed away in December 1997. “I punched a hole through Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall when I found out,” Perry wrote. “Keanu Reeves walks among us.” The Mr. Sunshine alum later issued an apology to Reeves, telling People in October, “I’m actually a big fan of Keanu. I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.” Joanne Davidson/Shutterstock; Hahn Lionel/ABACA/Shutterstock
Perry started up his ‘90s romance with Roberts by sending her flowers — but he was nervous from the very beginning. “I sent her three dozen red roses and the card read: The only thing more exciting than the prospect of you doing the show is that I finally have an excuse to send you flowers,” he wrote of the romantic gesture. The duo proceeded to court one another through daily faxes for three months. “I sent her poems, asked her to name the triple crown line on the Los Angeles Kings, that kind of thing. And it wasn’t like we weren’t both busy — I was shooting the most popular show on the planet, and she was shooting a Woody Allen movie, Everyone Says I Love You, in France,” he remembered. “But three or four times a day I would sit by my fax machine and watch the piece of paper slowly revealing her next missive. I was so excited that some nights I would find myself out at some party sharing a flirtatious exchange with an attractive woman and cut the conversation short so I could race home and see if a new fax had arrived.” The pair eventually met in person when the Pretty Woman star showed up at his door in Los Angeles. “She asked me how I was doing. ‘I’m feeling like the luckiest man in the word. How are you doing?’ ‘You should probably invite me in now.’ I did let her in, both figuratively and literally, and a relationship began,” Perry gushed. “We would already be a couple by the time we started filming the Friends Super Bowl episode. … We’d filmed Julia’s part of the double episode a few days after New Year’s — January 6 to 8. … Our kiss on the couch was so real people thought it was real.” The relationship, however, ended in 1996 when Perry broke up with Roberts. “I can’t begin to describe the look of confusion on her face,” he said of the moment. Dave Lewis/Shutterstock; Douglas C Pizac/AP/Shutterstock
“Years ago, right after she quit seeing Justin Timberlake, I got set up on a date with Cameron Diaz … The date was at a dinner party with a bunch of other people, but upon seeing me, Cameron got almost instantly stoned — it was clear that she wasn’t interested in me at all,” Perry told readers about the Mask actress. “But the party went on nevertheless, and at one point we were all playing a game — Pictionary, I think. As she was drawing, I said something witty to Cameron, to which she said, ‘Oh, come on!’ and proceeded to punch me in the shoulder. Or, at least, that’s what she meant to do.” The Boys Will Be Boys alum continued: “But she missed and, instead, punched me smack in the side of my face. ‘Are you f--king kidding me?’ I said, realizing I’d just been punched in the face by Cameron Diaz and my big arms hadn’t helped at all.” David Fisher/Shutterstock
“My Vicodin habit had now kicked in badly. If you watch season three of Friends, I hope you’ll be horrified at how thin I am by the end of the season (opioids f--k with your appetite, plus they make you vomit constantly). In the final episode, you’ll see that I’m wearing a white shirt, and tan slacks, and both look at least three sizes too big for me,” the producer revealed, noting that his jet ski accident kicked off his addiction. “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. By the end of season 3, 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.” While his costars tried to help him, the cracks were visible on set. “The addiction ravaged me — one time, in a scene in the coffeehouse when I’m dressed in a suit, I fell asleep right there on the couch, and disaster was averted only when Matt LeBlanc nudged me awake right before my line; no one noticed, but I knew how close I’d come,” he recalled. Perry revealed that he was high on Dilaudid for 30 days for pancreatitis, which is when he signed his contracts for seasons 6 and 7 of the NBC series. It wasn’t until season 9, that the actor was completely sober. “In L.A., I was also working to help other alcoholics get sober — sponsoring people, answering calls whenever needed, imparting advice,” he wrote. “Friends was a juggernaut, too, and I didn’t have to worry about f--king that up — I was clean, and I was about to have my season, the one where everyone was talking about Chandler. (Nine was the only year I was completely sober for a Friends season.).” A Rodriguez/BEI/Shutterstock
While filming season 7 of Friends, which aired in 2001, Perry found himself back at rehab. He remembered that after three weeks in the facility he called the show’s creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane to tell them he was “sober and could return” to filming. “’When are you coming back?’ they said. ‘We need you to come back. It’s going to be very work intensive. We have to start in two weeks, or we won’t be able to do it.’ But I was still very sick,” Perry recalled, noting his dad came to the rescue. “My father had overheard the tenor of the conversation and called Marta and David back. ‘I will pull him off your television show,’ Dad said, ‘if you continue to act this way around him.’” After another two weeks, the TV star was back on the Friends set. “When I arrived, Jen Aniston said, ‘I’ve been mad at you.’ ‘Honey,’ I said, ‘if you knew what I’d been through, you would not be mad at me.’ With that we hugged, and I got the work done,” Perry detailed. “I married Monica and got driven back to the treatment center — at the height of my highest point in Friends, the highest point in my career, the iconic moment on the iconic show — in a pickup truck helmed by a sober technician.” Crollalanza/Shutterstock
“One fine day, God and my therapist got together and decided to miraculously remove my desire to take drugs. A desire that has been plaguing me since 1996,” Perry revealed. “My therapist said to me, ‘The next time you think about OxyContin, I want you to think about living out the rest of your days with a colostomy bag.’ Having had a colostomy bag for nine long months, my therapist’s words hit hard. And when this man’s words hit hard, the prudent thing to do is to get into action immediately. What he said caused a very small window to open, and I crawled through it. And on the other side was a life without OxyContin.” Rich Fury/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
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