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The ‘Friends’ star recently opened up about how his co-stars on the series were there for him while he was struggling with addiction.
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00:00Matthew Perry is opening up about how Jennifer Aniston supported him through his struggles
00:04with addiction.
00:06In a preview clip for his upcoming interview with Diane Sawyer, Perry said his friend's
00:10co-star remained in close contact with him throughout his entire addiction struggle,
00:15which dated back to his mid-twenties and early years on the hit NBC sitcom.
00:20Jennifer?
00:21Jenny, yeah.
00:22And she says, we know you're drinking.
00:25Yeah.
00:26Imagine how scary a moment that was.
00:28He added, she was the one that reached out the most.
00:31You know, I'm really grateful to her for that.
00:33The two-minute clip highlighted other parts from their October 28th interview, like how
00:37at one point in his struggle, he was taking 55 Vicodin, Methadone, Xanax, and drinking a
00:42full quart of vodka all in one day.
00:45It's the time I should have been the toast of the town.
00:48I was in a dark room meeting with nothing but drug dealers and completely alone.
00:56The interview comes on the heels of the actor's recent People cover story in which he got
01:00candid about his addiction in a way he has never before, ahead of the November 1st release
01:05of his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
01:09In the story, he says, I thought Friends was going to fix everything.
01:12It didn't.
01:13Perry also opened up about his other Friends co-stars who rallied around him.
01:17They were understanding, and they were patient.
01:19It's like penguins.
01:20In nature, when one is sick or very injured, the other penguins surround it and prop it
01:24up and walk around until that penguin can walk on its own.
01:27And that's kind of what the cast did for me.
01:30For more on this story, head to THR.com.
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