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Known for his portrayal of the sarcastic Chandler Bing on “Friends,” Matthew Perry peeled back the curtain on his three-decade addiction struggles in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.” The book was published one year before the actor's sudden death on Oct. 28, 2023. Perry’s addiction was with him during “Friends,” but he shared that his castmates provided a beacon of hope for him during his dark times in an exclusive interview with People.
“I could handle it, kind of, but by the time I was 34, I was really entrenched in a lot of trouble,” he said, while noting he reached a point where he would take 55 Vicodin a day and weighed 128 pounds. By the time his memoir was published, Perry had gone to rehab 15 times and undergone 14 surgeries related to his addiction. He once went to the hospital when his colon burst. “The doctors told my family that I had a two percent chance to live.
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