Matthew Perry said fans can differentiate between when he drank alcohol or did drugs by watching friends.
The actor — who played Chandler Bing on the 10-season comedy series, which ran from 1994 to 2004 — has opened up about his mental struggles.
In his next autobiography Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thingPerry writes extensively about his widely publicized addiction to alcohol and painkillers.
Perry, 53, said fans of the show can tell if he’s drinking alcohol or taking drugs by “measuring” his weight and tracking his facial hair throughout the show.
Berry wrote in an excerpt from the book he published Sixth page.
“When I hold my weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills; when I have a little beard, it’s a lot of pills.”
In the third series that aired in 1996, Perry’s character grows a beard for part of the season.
Perry also writes in his autobiography about the medical emergency that caused him to drop out of the blockbuster Netflix movie do not searchin which he was scheduled to star opposite Meryl Streep and Jonah Hill.
The actor said his heart stopped beating for five minutes due to the combination of the anesthetic drug propofol and the opioid hydrocodone.
Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox in 1996, the year Friends started
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Berry also apologized for the remarks he made about Keanu Reeves in his memoirs, after he wrote, “Why did original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”
Friends, lovers and the big horrible thing It will be released on November 1.
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