The day Jennifer Aniston told Matthew Perry he had to go back to rehab

Matthew Perry has tried many times to get rid of his addictions to alcohol and painkillers. And the reaction of those around him has often been crucial. This was particularly the case of that of Jennifer Aniston, her colleague in Friendswhich he recounts in his autobiography, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.

The actress decided to put him in front of his alcoholism.

“She said to me, ‘I know you drink.’ I said, ‘How do you know that?’” he says. “So she said to me, in a kind of strange but tender way, ‘We can feel it. And the plural of this “we” was like a blow. »

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Because if Matthew Perry was well aware that he was drinking too much at the time, he was also completely addicted to drugs, and he did not know what to do about it. Jennifer Aniston not only urged him to seek help, but was also there to support him afterward.

“She was the one who came to see me the most. I’m really grateful to him for that, “said the actor during his interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC.

Today, Matthew Perry is well on the way to sobriety. But there was a time, when filming season 3 of Friendswhere he needed… 55 pills of Vicodin per day!

“It was a full-time job: making calls, seeing doctors, faking migraines, finding corrupt nurses who were going to give me what I needed,” he says. “You can follow the trajectory of my addiction by looking at my weight from season to season. When I’m overweight, it’s alcohol. When I’m thin, it’s the drugs. When I have a goatee, it’s way too much medicine. »

Well, here’s a (slightly creepy) reason to redo everything Friends !