The Chandler Bing depicter has gotten text messages from his castmates on the classic sitcom as they offer support after he goes public with his personal struggle.
- November 1, 2022
AceShowbiz - Matthew Perry's "Friends" co-stars have reached out to support him. The 53-year-old actor, who played Chandler Bing on the sitcom for its 10-season run from 1994 to 2004, hopes his castmates read his autobiography "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing" about his fight to recover after he battled for years to keep his drug and alcohol addiction secret from them while on the show.
"I've gotten some really nice texts from a few of them already and the book isn't even out yet," he added on Monday, October 31 on "Good Morning America".
Matthew added about the horror of recording the memoir, out on Tuesday, November 1, as an audiobook, "It was a gratifying experience to write the book, it all just poured out of me. It came easily to me to write it but then I had to read it for the Audible part of it and that was really hard."
"Reading and it sort of disassociating a bit... thinking, 'God, what a terrible, hard life this guy has had' and realising, I'm talking about myself. I felt very sorry for that person because I know what was going on in his head and it all had to be a secret. I was on a show that a lot of people were watching and trying not to have a lot of people know that."
Matthew's years of addictions saw him taking 55 Vicodin a day, washed down by a quarter bottle of vodka. He underwent 15 surgeries to repair his burst colon, which exploded due to his years of drink and drug abuse.
