Matthew Perry recounts how Jennifer Aniston confronted him about his substance abuse - CNN

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Matthew Perry is continuing to stock candid moments from his agelong travel to sobriety and the struggles helium endured during his tally connected NBC’s “Friends” portion yoyo-ing betwixt addictions to Vicodin and alcohol.

In an excerpt from his caller publication “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” Perry recounts however a sojourn from costar Jennifer Aniston to his trailer made him recognize that his concealed behaviour erstwhile it came to intoxicant wasn’t truthful secret.

“‘I cognize you’re drinking,’ she said,” Perry, present 53, writes successful the memoir, successful an excerpt published by the Times of London.

“I had agelong since gotten implicit her – ever since she started dating Brad Pitt, I was good – and had worked retired precisely however agelong to look astatine her without it being awkward, but still, to beryllium confronted by Jennifer Aniston was devastating. And I was confused,” helium continued.

“‘How tin you tell?’ I said. I ne'er worked drunk. ‘I’ve been trying to fell it …’”

Elsewhere successful the excerpt, Perry mentioned however helium “never” worked precocious oregon drunk (although helium “certainly worked hungover”), and helium said helium was mostly capable to relation arsenic portion of the uber-successful “Friends” ensemble acknowledgment to his castmates and however they would “group astir [him] and prop [him] up” similar an injured penguin being supported by the different penguins.

“I was the injured penguin, but I was determined to not fto these fantastic people, and this show, down,” helium wrote.

But that time successful Perry’s trailer, Aniston told him plainly that helium wasn’t getting distant with anything.

“‘We tin odor it,’ she said, successful a benignant of weird but loving way, and the plural ‘we’ deed maine similar a sledgehammer,” Perry wrote.

“‘I cognize I’m drinking excessively much,’ I said, ‘but I don’t precisely cognize what to bash astir it.’”

The “Whole Nine Yards” prima besides describes successful the caller publication however his value fluctuated wildly owed to the pills making him sick and alleviating his appetite, oregon intoxicant causing him to beryllium bloated.

“You tin way the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my value from play to play – erstwhile I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; erstwhile I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I person a goatee, it’s tons of pills.”

Perry adjacent referenced circumstantial points successful the deed show’s 10-season tally and clued readers successful to what was going connected with his addiction astatine that time.

“By the extremity of play three, I was spending astir of my clip figuring retired however to get 55 Vicodin a time – I had to person 55 each day, different I’d get truthful sick. It was a full-time job: making calls, seeing doctors, faking migraines, uncovering crooked nurses who would springiness maine what I needed,” Perry wrote.

The histrion recently said helium is yet acceptable to stock his experiences present that helium is safely connected the different broadside of addiction.

“I wanted to stock erstwhile I was harmless from going into the acheronian broadside of everything again,” Perry told People of the book. “I had to hold until I was beauteous safely sober – and distant from the progressive illness of alcoholism and addiction – to constitute it each down. And the main happening was, I was beauteous definite that it would assistance people.”

“Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” by Matthew Perry, volition beryllium published by Headline connected November 1.