Matthew Perry fell asleep on 'Friends' set but Matt LeBlanc woke him up - Insider

• Matthew Perry said helium erstwhile fell dormant portion shooting a java store country successful "Friends."
• The actor, who was struggling with addiction, said Matt LeBlanc woke him earlier anyone noticed.
• The anecdote is shared by Perry successful his upcoming memoir "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing."

In the depths of his addiction, Matthew Perry said helium erstwhile fell dormant midway done a country successful "Friends," but was saved by Matt LeBlanc.

Perry, 53, opens up astir the toll his addiction to opioids and intoxicant took connected his assemblage and vocation successful his upcoming memoir "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing," slated for a November 1 release. Insider antecedently reported that the histrion revealed however his conflict astir became fatal aft his colon burst from opioid use erstwhile helium was 49. 

However, according to an excerpt from his publication published by The Sunday Times, his conflict with addiction began decades earlier and overlapped with his clip connected "Friends."

Perry played the quality of Chandler Bing connected the NBC sitcom passim its 10-season run. Despite being "determined" not to fto his addiction interaction his enactment connected the amusement oregon his castmates, Perry admitted that helium erstwhile fell dormant filming a country successful Central Perk. 

"The addiction ravaged maine — 1 time, successful a country successful the coffeehouse erstwhile I'm dressed successful a suit, I fell dormant close determination connected the couch," helium wrote. "Disaster was averted lone erstwhile Matt LeBlanc nudged maine awake close earlier my line; nary 1 noticed, but I knew however adjacent I'd come."

LeBlanc, 55, played Perry's character's person and roommate, Joey Tribbiani. 

At the time, Perry says helium was taking up to 55 pills a time of Vicodin, the marque sanction for a painkiller that combines the opiate hydrocodone with the over-the-counter symptom reliever acetaminophen, Healthline reported.

It wouldn't beryllium the past clip his castmates would either knowingly oregon unknowingly enactment Perry done his struggle. 

In the aforesaid excerpt, Perry said Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel Green connected the show, confronted him astir his drinking astatine 1 point, telling him that radical could "smell it" connected him.

"To beryllium confronted by Jennifer Aniston was devastating," helium wrote.

Perry touched connected the enactment during an interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC and said he was "grateful" for Aniston speaking retired to him contempt it being a "scary" moment. 

"She was the 1 who reached retired the most," Perry said of Aniston, 53, who helium referred to successful the interrogation arsenic "Jenny." "I'm truly grateful to her for that," helium added.