The Moment Jennifer Aniston Confronted Matthew Perry About His $9million Addiction
msn.comThere has long been a pretty nasty narrative about Matthew Perry, namely around his weight. He has either - according to tabloid headlines - been too fat or thin for most of his career.
Now, the Friends actor has revealed in a shocking new memoir - ‘Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing’ - that his weight was actually the big indicator behind his drink and drug abuse - which he says has cost him around $9 million during his lifetime. ‘You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season,’ he writes. ‘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. ’ He also reveals that he was in a coma and came close to death during his decades long battle with Vicodin, Xanax and drink.
In that time, he says, it was - out of his Friends cast mates - Jennifer Aniston who confronted him about his increasingly obvious issues. ‘“I know you’re drinking,’ she said,” Perry, now 53, writes in the memoir. ‘I had long since gotten over her – ever since she started dating Brad Pitt, I was fine [earlier in the book he describes how Jennifer turned him down when they were younger] – and had worked out exactly how long to look at her without it being awkward, but still, to be confronted by Jennifer Aniston was devastating.
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