I weighed 128 pounds when I checked into Hazelden rehab in Minnesota, my life in ruins.” The Fools Rush In star later added: “A year and a half later, I was taking fifty-five of those pills a day. As I drove that red Mustang convertible to my rented house in Vegas, I remember thinking, If this doesn’t kill me, I’m doing this again.” It was the greatest feeling I’d ever had. … I couldn’t believe how good I felt I was in complete and pure euphoria,” he recalled. And it’s been that click I’ve been chasing the rest of my life. “As the pill kicked in, something clicked in me. In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies While Perry’s first drinks made him feel “normal” for the first time, he experienced an entirely new sensation after being given a pain pill after getting into a jet ski accident on a movie set in 1997. I had never been happier than in that moment,” the Massachusetts native said about drinking for the first time. “The world made sense it wasn’t bent and crazy. In his memoir, Perry recalled having his first drink with friends at the age of 14. The cast was rounded out by Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc. Over the years, his character had a grand romance with Courteney Cox‘s Monica Gellar, the sister of his college best friend, Ross ( David Schwimmer). The actor played sarcastic Chandler Bing on the beloved sitcom, which ran from 1994 to 2004. “I’m wearing the same clothes in the final episode of six and the first of seven, but I must have lost fifty pounds in the off-season.” “Compare … how I look between the final episode of season six and the first of season seven - the Chandler-Monica proposal episodes,” he wrote. Perry noted that a drastic difference in appearance is sometimes visible from episode to episode.

When I have a goatee, it’s lots of pills,” the Almost Heroes star wrote in his memoir, Friends, Lovers & The Big Terrible Thing, which hits stores on Tuesday, November 1.

“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. Matthew Perry rocketed to worldwide fame thanks to the success of Friends, but off screen, his addiction was taking a massive toll. The one where he decides to share it all.

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