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Jennifer Aniston just dropped a gut-wrenching confession -- her heartbreak over Matthew Perry didn’t begin the day he died ... it began long before.

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00:00Jennifer Aniston is speaking out about her friend Matthew Perry and mourning him,

00:06something that she says she was doing even before he died.

00:10She did an interview with Vanity Fair and was asked about the mourning process

00:14and about, you know, life after Matthew Perry's death.

00:19And she said that this is something that she, obviously, that she and the other friends' castmates

00:24kind of saw coming is really what she was saying.

00:27Well, they didn't just see it coming. They were dealing with it for decades.

00:31Yeah.

00:31Literally decades. This was going on during the show.

00:34And she said because they'd been dealing with it for so long,

00:37they basically had said goodbye to him long before he died.

00:40And I just want to say, before you get into what she said, I've read his book and know about him.

00:46Right.

00:46He almost died several times before he actually died.

00:49Yeah, and I think that's part of what she's referring to here.

00:52She says, we, meaning the castmates, we did everything we could when we could.

00:57It almost felt like we'd been mourning Matthew for a long time

01:00because his battle with that disease was a really hard one for him to fight.

01:05As hard as it was for all of us and for the fans, there's a part of me that thinks this is better.

01:10I'm glad he's out of that pain.

01:12That is so interesting that she says that almost like it's a, I mean, I don't know how to mince it.

01:19It's a blessing he died because he's in a better space because he was suffering so much.

01:23We're suffering for so much and for so long.

01:25But what I find, like, really interesting about this, because, again, when you read his book,

01:31he was clean, I think, when he wrote it.

01:33At least he said he was.

01:35Right.

01:35But who knows?

01:36But when you read the book, you believe this time is different.

01:40And, you know, he talks about that need, but he talks about how he went back and forth and how bad it got.

01:48And it was awful.

01:49When it was awful, he was one of the most famous people in the world.

01:53And he spent most of his time in dark rooms with drug addicts scoring drugs.

01:57And we now know what was happening at the end of his life, that he was, again, this wasn't in dark rooms with drug addicts.

02:05It was with doctors.

02:06It was with doctors scoring it.

02:08And we know that they've been prosecuted for that.

02:11But it is interesting to hear Jennifer admit that they kind of knew this wasn't going to end well.

02:19Well, I mean, again, he almost died several times.

02:22Right, and they were so close to him that they knew it long before the public even knew that there was an issue.

02:29Especially her, that of all the Friends cast, she was the one who really, I mean, they were all really good to him, but she really tried.

02:38And he acknowledges this in the book, that she was the one who was really trying to save him.

02:44I just find it so interesting and honest that she's saying he was so tortured that, in a way, he's in a better place.

02:53And that's a hard thing to say.

02:55And on a level, on a surface level, it might sound heartless.

02:59But deeper down, it's really impactful.

03:02Hi, my name is Tanisha.

03:04I'm from Anchorage, Alaska.

03:05And I understand why Jennifer said that.

03:06She's being very transparent.

03:08Matthew Perry struggled for a really long time with addiction.

03:11And they were the closest to him, so they saw it.

03:13And when you see your friends slip away in front of you like that, it's just heartbreaking.

03:18So I think it was in a way of kind of preparing for something that she was hoping never happened.

03:22And it was a sad situation all the way around.

03:24I mean, his stepdad, Keith Morrison, who's on Dateline, I remember he said right after Matthew died,

03:32it's heartbreaking, but not surprising.

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