Matthew Perry brought to verge of TEARS watching clip of himself emaciated from drugs on Friends

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Matthew Perry was brought to the verge of tears while watching an old clip of himself on Friends, emaciated because of his drug addiction.Perry, 53, has laid bare his battle with substance abuse in his upcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, out November 1.In the book he noted that fans could tell which drug he was on based on his physical size onscreen: 'When I'm carrying weight, it's alcohol; when I'm skinny, it's pills; when I have a goatee, it's lots of pills.'Now in a new interview for ABC News, Diane Sawyer showed him a snippet of footage of him looking 'painfully thin' on a Friends episode from 1997 - the year he first plunged into Vicodin addiction while recovering from a jet ski accident.'It's very hard to watch that,' he said, barely able to get the words out: 'because in this weird way I feel sorry for that guy, 'cause that's a guy that's out of control.' Tough: Matthew Perry was brought to the verge of tears while watching an old clip of himself on Friends, emaciated because of his drug addictionChoking up, he continued: 'I didn't know what was going on with me.

I weighed 155lbs on my way to 128lbs. I feel too sorry for that guy, he's going through too much - and it's me, and I remember that, and I didn't understand what was going on.'He reflected that 'I'm so grateful to not be that anymore' but confessed that even now 'it's hard to, it's hard to watch that.'  During the same interview he revealed that his Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston confronted him about his substance abuse.Perry was surprised, thinking he had been effectively concealing his drinking from the rest of the cast, but Aniston told him they could smell the alcohol on his breath.