Over the weekend, ABC released the trailer for a Matthew Perry interview with Diane Sawyer, which will air on the 28th of this month. In the video, the actor returned to talk about his struggle with drugs and emotionally recalled how much Jennifer Aniston, his girlfriend and “Friends” costar, had helped him through that process.
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Perry recently opened his heart to people and opened up about a dark time in his life. The actor confessed that he almost died 4 years ago due to drug addiction. Now he joins in another brave and candid interview, revealing sensitive details about his past. In one of the excerpts, Matthew revealed that Jennifer confronted him on the set of Friends and said everyone knew he was a drinker. “Imagine how awful that moment was. She was the person who reached out the most. I am very grateful to her for that.”
At 49, Matthew Perry nearly bid farewell to family and friends with an “explosion” in his colon from opioid overuse. The artist spent two weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital, and had to wear a colostomy bag for another nine months. According to doctors, he only had a 2% chance of survival. “Secrets will kill you. Secrets kill people like me.”
Matthew Perry returned to open up about his drug problems in a heartfelt and emotional conversation (Picture: Playback/Youtube/ABC)
Speaking to Sawyer, Perry also said he takes multiple combinations of painkillers and a quart of vodka every day. “Back then I should have been the highlight of the city. I was in a dark room, only meeting drug dealers, and I was completely alone.”
Ready to help others with the same problem, this month he’s launching an autobiographical book that chronicles his entire journey of ups and downs, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. In another moving excerpt from the Diane Sawyer interview, part of the first page of the work was revealed by the journalist: “Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by a different name. My friends call me Maddie and I should be dead.” “It’s definitely true,” said the eternal Chandler as he listened to the host’s reading. Watch the trailer:
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