Matthew Perry says Jennifer Aniston confronted him about drinking - Insider

• Matthew Perry said that "Friends" costar Jennifer Aniston confronted him astir his drinking.
• Perry said that the infinitesimal was "devastating" and helium was confused due to the fact that helium ne'er drank connected set.
• He said that Aniston told him, "We tin odor it."

Matthew Perry said that it was "devastating" erstwhile "Friends" costar Jennifer Aniston confronted him astir his intoxicant addiction connected the acceptable of the deed sitcom. 

In his memoir titled "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing," released connected Tuesday, Perry elaborate his emergence to fame and years-long struggles with alcoholism and cause addiction. The histrion astir notably played the sarcastic Chandler Bing connected "Friends," which ran for 10 seasons betwixt 1994 and 2004. 

Perry said that helium "was ne'er precocious portion I was working," but helium revealed that play 9 was "the lone twelvemonth I was wholly sober for a 'Friends' season." It was besides the lone play helium was nominated for an Emmy for champion histrion successful a comedy.  

"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 lots of pills," helium said.

Perry said that helium got pancreatitis erstwhile helium was 30 years aged and spent "30 days and nights" successful the hospital, being fed fluids done an IV. The histrion said helium was fixed "regular amounts of a cause called Dilaudid" to easiness the pain, and it rapidly became his "new favourite drug."

He said that helium was "high and happy" and signed the declaration for seasons six and 7 of "Friends" with "a feeding conduit successful my limb and Dilaudid flowing done my brain."

Perry said that aft leaving the hospital, helium resumed utilizing Vicodin and drinking. 

"I returned for the adjacent play of 'Friends' precocious arsenic a kite, and everyone knew that thing had to beryllium done," helium said. 

"I had been told that methadone had nary broadside effects," helium recalled. "This was not true. In fact, it was the opening of the end. Otherwise, everything other was going great. 'Friends' was inactive arsenic palmy arsenic ever."

Perry said that 1 day, Aniston (Rachel Green), who helium antecedently had a crush on, went to his trailer and told him, "I cognize you're drinking."

"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," Perry wrote. "And I was confused."

The "17 Again" prima asked Aniston however she could archer that helium wasn't sober since helium "never worked drunk" and had been trying to fell his addictions from the formed and crew. 

"'We tin odor it,' she said, successful a benignant of weird but loving way, and the plural 'we' deed maine similar a sledgehammer," Perry said. 

In his book, Perry said that helium "never worked high, but I surely worked hungover" and would request idiosyncratic to thrust him to set.

The histrion said that adjacent though radical caught connected to his addictions, the amusement was excessively palmy to beryllium derailed by his unhealthy habits.

"Everyone would inquire maine if I was each right, but cipher wanted to halt the 'Friends' bid due to the fact that it was specified a moneymaker, and I conscionable felt horrible astir it," helium said.