Kelly Osbourne recalls “kind” gesture from Matthew Perry at her first AA meeting
nme.comKelly Osbourne has shared a story about a kind gesture that Matthew Perry made for her at her first AA meeting.In a recent episode of The Osbournes Podcast, she recalled her first meeting with the late Friends star when she was 19 years old.“One time I was at a really, really horrible place, I was 19 years old and it was the first time I had ever been in treatment,” she said.“It was the very first AA meeting I ever went to and it was the one in the Palisades on Sunday in the morning.“I was shitting myself about being in there and there were so many people, and I hated it.
I didn’t think that I belonged, and I felt worthless, everything. I just wanted to run because I knew where I was, and I knew how to get home from there.“He [Matthew Perry] came up to me, because I guess I was visibly struggling.
He handed me a 60-second chip and he was like, ’Just hold this for 60 seconds. If you can get through that, you can get through the next 60 seconds.′“I was like, ‘OK.’ And I kept that, I have it somewhere still.
I just remember him being so kind.”Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing on Friends, was found dead in his hot tub at his Los Angeles home on October 28.
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