Around this time, he was drinking vodka by the quart. But on February 23, , something shifted. That day, he was in his Dallas hotel room and decided to call his parents for help. Even though Friends was still in production and there were 13 days of shooting left on the movie, Perry took control. He flew back to L. It only made me more adamant about trying to get better. After two and a half months, he re-emerged and refocused. While the movie production had been halted, he went back and finished it.
He also returned to his second home on the set of Friends. Being on Friends from to amplified the challenges of going through such a difficult addiction. In , he went back into rehab as part of his continuing recovery. Not long after that, he decided to pay it forward by opening up the 5,square-foot Perry House in Malibu as a sober-living facility for men in He even channeled his experiences into writing a stage play called The End of Longing , which debuted in London in The star was addicted to Vicodin, methadone, amphetamines and alcohol, but eventually received a Champion of Recovery award in for opening sober residency Perry House.
Variety critic Caroline Framke wrote on the reunion: "The special ultimately declines to discuss any of his troubled experience explicitly, but it nonetheless lingers around the margins with palpable unease.
Perry did hint towards his addiction battle in the special, saying he felt every night "like I was going to die if they didn't laugh," and said, "it wasn't healthy, for sure". Fans worried Matthew Perry suffered a drugs relapse when he was filmed with "slurred speech" during a promo for the reunion.
But The Sun exclusively revealed this is due to dental work, which left him "unwell and in pain". Want to find out more about the Friends cast and the reunion episode? Stating that drug courts were the single most effective program for curing serious drug addicts, Matthew told the Hill , "Any opportunity I get to talk about drug courts on a one-on-one level or a much bigger level—like testifying in that scary room—I grab at because it's just one of the few things that's a no-brainer: it saves lives, it saves money, it's bipartisan.
An ecstatic Matthew told The Hollywood Reporter at the time, "During my darkest times, I never could of imagined receiving an award at the White House. He jad joed while receiving the award, "I'm an award-winning alcoholic.
I shouldn't be getting an award; Phoenix House should be getting an award. Matthew, who has not really enjoyed the level of success that he did with Friends in the later years, sadly learned about the cancellation of his third short-lived show The Odd Couple in the most shocking way.
He is arguably the Friends cast member, who has enjoyed the least amount of success in showbiz and the fact that yet another show of his got canned could definitely have had a negative impact on him. Just mid-November, , a shocking new scandal Matthew. A porn star who goes by the name Maddy O'Reilly, has claimed that the Friends star tried to hit her up for pills. He reportedly sent her a series of messgaes, in which he basically asked her if she knew anyone who could "help me purchase some pills".
When she asked him how much he was willing to pay he said "a lot" depending on the type of painkiller available. Why would he ask me something like that? It's not like we partied or I have a reputation for partying," the pornstar told Daily Mail. We do not know how genuine her claims are and Matthew is yet to respond to them. In , he was hospitalized with pancreatitis due to alcohol abuse. The West Wing alum recalled often shaking and sweating on set afterward while going through detox.
Although he finally asked for help the next year , he still had a long road to recovery. Scroll down for the full timeline:.
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