Matthew Perry’s tell-all e book, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, remains to be making headlines one month after its early November launch.
In a brand new interview with CBC, the actor revealed one thing Friends followers have lengthy been interested by — why has the actor by no means watched his NBC sitcom? Many actors refuse to look at their very own work, however the present has been so omnipresent during the last three a long time, it could take a concentrated effort to keep away from it.
Perry opened up about that purpose in the course of the interview, noting it revolves across the habit points he was battling in the course of the years they filmed the collection. “I was taking 55 Vicodin a day, I weighed 128 lbs, I was on Friends getting watched by 30 million people — and that’s why I can’t watch the show, ’cause I was brutally thin,” he mentioned.
Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow on Friends (© Warner Bros. / Courtesy: Everett Collection)
He famous he might inform which substance he was combating on the time primarily based on the way in which he seemed in every episode. “I didn’t watch the present, and haven’t watched the present, as a result of I might go, ‘drinking, opiates, drinking, cocaine,” the actor said about when he did attempt to watch an episode. “I could tell season by season by how I looked. That’s why I don’t wanna watch it as a result of that’s what I see.”
The actor famous that simply because he hasn’t, it doesn’t imply he by no means will. In reality, he needs to look at Friends now that it has grow to be a success amongst youthful viewers due to syndication and streaming.
“I think I’m gonna start to watch it, because it really has been an incredible thing to watch it touch the hearts of different generations,” he famous. “It’s become this important, significant thing. It was really funny and all the people were nice. I’ve been too worried about this, and I wanna watch Friends too.”
Watch the interview beneath: