Elizabeth Hurley says it was a ‘nightmare’ working with Matthew Perry amid actor's addiction - Fox News

Elizabeth Hurley said it was a "nightmare" moving with Matthew Perry connected their 2002 movie "Serving Sara," which was changeable astatine the tallness of his cause addiction. 

The accumulation had to beryllium abruptly unopen down due to the fact that the "Friends" prima needed to participate rehab for 2 months. 

Still, the "Royals" histrion doesn’t clasp it against Perry, who elaborate his addiction struggles successful his caller memoir, "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing." 

Hurley precocious told Yahoo! Entertainment it was a "little tough" during the film’s hiatus. But erstwhile helium returned to filming aft 2 months successful rehab helium was "fabulous."

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Elizabeth Hurley and Matthew Perry starred successful 2002's "Serving Sara" together.  (Noam Galai/Frederick M. Brown)

Hurley, who said Perry had to "revoice" everything helium changeable earlier rehab, added, "obviously helium was having a pugnacious time, but helium was inactive precise charming and a beauteous idiosyncratic to enactment with, but you could spot helium was suffering for sure."

Perry said helium had to redo his lines due to the fact that helium was initially slurring them.

Elizabeth Hurley and Matthew Perry be the 2002 premiere of "Serving Sara." The histrion said it was a "nightmare" to enactment with him astatine the tallness of his cause addiction.  (Steve Granitz/WireImage)

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The movie was "shot successful Dallas, and I was doing ‘Friends’ at the aforesaid time, truthful it doubled my workload," Perry wrote successful the book. 

"And I was flying connected a backstage pitchy drinking vodka retired of a h2o bottle," helium said. The histrion wrote that, astatine 1 point, helium was taking 55 Vicodin tablets and drinking a quart of vodka a day. 

Matthew Perry said helium was shooting "Serving Sara" astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic "Friends," adding helium drank vodka portion flying betwixt Los Angeles and Dallas.  (Gary Null/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal )

"I weighed 155 pounds, connected my mode to 128 pounds," helium said. "I consciousness excessively atrocious for that guy, he's going done excessively much, and it's me. And I retrieve that, and I didn't recognize what was going on. But, again, I'm sorry, and I'm truthful grateful to not beryllium that anymore."

He says helium has been sober implicit a twelvemonth now. 

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