Elizabeth Hurley says Matthew Perry 'was a nightmare' during addiction - Insider

• Elizabeth Hurley recovered it hard moving with Matthew Perry due to the fact that of his addiction.
• The 2 actors starred successful the 2002 rom-com, "Serving Sara."
• Hurley added that Perry was "fabulous" erstwhile helium came backmost to accumulation aft rehab.

It's present good known that "Friends" prima Matthew Perry had issues with substance addiction erstwhile moving connected the beloved sitcom successful the precocious 1990s and aboriginal 2000s, and he's been precise unfastened astir his struggles in his caller book, "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing."

The prima adjacent recalled a infinitesimal erstwhile costar Jennifer Aniston confronted him connected acceptable astir his occupation with alcohol, which devastated him. But Aniston is not the lone prima that dealt with Perry's issues astatine the time. 

In 2002, the histrion starred successful "Serving Sara" with Elizabeth Hurley. The romance drama saw Perry play a process server who falls for Hurley's Sara erstwhile trying to service her divorcement papers. 

But Hurley precocious spoke to Yahoo! Entertainment astir moving connected the task with Perry, and she explained that the movie suffered due to the fact that of the star's issues astatine the time. 

She said: "To beryllium honest, it was a nightmare moving with him astatine that clip and, arsenic it's present known, our movie was unopen down due to the fact that of his addiction."

"Serving Sara" went connected a two-month hiatus due to the fact that Perry was admitted into rehab for 2 months instantly after filming Chandler and Monica's (Courtney Cox) wedding connected "Friends." 

Unfortunately, this meant plentifulness of downtime for Hurley and the crew. She added: "We were successful a unit majeure and had to each beryllium astatine location twiddling our thumbs for immoderate time." 

Although the prima said it was a "rough" experience, Perry "was fabulous" erstwhile helium yet returned to acceptable and accumulation resumed. 

Hurley went connected to accidental that it was hard to spot her costar conflict with his addiction, but she made a constituent of saying that helium was "lovely" adjacent though helium was inactive successful a hard place. 

She added: "It was tough, evidently 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."