{"id":12383,"date":"2022-11-04T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/matthew-perry-was-high-felt-nothing-during-friends-finale-hollywood-life\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:53:00","slug":"matthew-perry-was-high-felt-nothing-during-friends-finale-hollywood-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/matthew-perry-was-high-felt-nothing-during-friends-finale-hollywood-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry Was High &#038; \u2018Felt Nothing\u2019 During \u2018Friends\u2019 Finale \u2013 Hollywood Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"entry-media edge-to-edge entry-media--lead-gallery\" aria-describedby=\"lead-image-credit\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a id=\"lead-gallery-link-featured\" class=\"entry-media__image entry-media__image-0\" 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rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Matthew Perry<\/strong><\/a> \u201cfelt nothing\u201d after filming the finale of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2022\/11\/03\/friends-cast-reaction-matthew-perry-memoir\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The actor admitted he was emotionally numbed and excessive on opiates through the <em>NBC<\/em> sitcom\u2019s ultimate days in his e book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2022\/10\/25\/matthew-perry-hatred-keanu-reeves-new-book\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir<\/a>, <\/em>the place he particulars his battle with substance abuse and the burden of fame.<\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"related-articles\" class=\"inline-related-articles\">\n<h2 id=\"related-articles\" class=\"inline-related-articles__heading\"><span class=\"inline-related-articles__heading__eyebrow\">More About<\/span>matthew perry<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-3\">\u201cIt was January 23, 2004,\u201d he remembers within the e book, which got here out Nov. 1. \u201cThe keys on the counter, a guy who looked a lot like Chandler Bing said, \u2018Where?\u2019 \u2018Embryonic Journey\u2019 by <strong>Jefferson Airplane<\/strong> played, the camera panned to the back of the apartment door, then <strong>Ben,<\/strong> our first AD, and very close friend, shouted for the last time, \u2018That\u2019s a wrap,\u2019 and tears sprang from almost everyone\u2019s eyes like so many geysers.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4887227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4887227\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4887227 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Matthew-Perry-friends-finale-everett-embed.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4887227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Perry \u2018felt nothing\u2019 whereas filming the finale of \u2018Friends\u2019. (Everett Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">\u201cWe had made 237 episodes, including this last one, called, appropriately enough, \u2018The Last One.\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/celeb\/jennifer-aniston\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>(Jennifer) Aniston<\/strong><\/a> was sobbing \u2014 after a while, I was amazed she had any water left in her entire body. Even Matt LeBlanc was crying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">Matthew, nonetheless, felt hole. \u201cBut I felt nothing,\u201d he goes on within the e book. \u201cI couldn\u2019t tell if that was because of the opioid buprenorphine I was taking, or if I was just generally dead inside.\u201d Though he began taking buprenorphine as a \u201cdetox med,\u201d he\u2019d been taking the notoriously difficult-to-withdraw-from drug for eight months at that time.<\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"articles-trending-now\" class=\"entry-navigation inline-trending-stories\">\n\t\t<span id=\"articles-trending-now\" class=\"screen-reader-only\">Articles Trending Now<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-navigation__heading\">\n\t\t\tTrending Now\t\t\t<span class=\"entry-navigation__heading__icon\"><svg fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 17\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t<path fill=\"#D718A7\" d=\"M8 16.376a8 8 0 1 0 0-16 8 8 0 0 0 0 16Z\"\/>\n\t<path stroke=\"#fff\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"m9.51 5.626 2.11-.75.76 2.09\"\/>\n\t<path stroke=\"#fff\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"m3.42 10.696 2.21-3.05 2.03 3.83 3.95-6.5\"\/>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- .entry-navigation --><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">The relaxation was a daze. He remembered, \u201cSo, instead of sobbing, I took a slow walk around the stage with my then-girlfriend \u2014 also appropriately called Rachel \u2014 stage 24 at Warner Bros. in Burbank (a stage that after the show ended would be renamed \u201cThe Friends Stage.\u201d) \u201cWe said our various goodbyes, agreeing to see each other soon in the way that people do when they know it\u2019s not true, and then we headed out to my car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">While the e book is filled with intimate particulars, Matthew\u2019s previous castmates are stated to be <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2022\/11\/03\/friends-cast-reaction-matthew-perry-memoir\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">completely behind<\/a> the star\u2019s e book \u201cEven after all these years the cast still has a strong sense of loyalty to each other,\u201d a <em>Friends<\/em> insider informed <strong>HollywoodLife<\/strong> completely. \u201cEveryone\u2019s been very supportive of Matthew, sharing his story. It was never going to be some tell all about their lives, it was always going to be about his journey through addiction and he made sure they knew that before it came out.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"related-link\" class=\"inline-related-link\">\n\t\t<span id=\"related-link\" class=\"screen-reader-only\">Related Link<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-related-link__text\">\n\t\t\t<strong>Related:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/who-is-mike-hagerty-4728568\/?utm_source=related-link&amp;utm_pageType=article-with-linked-gallery\" data-analytics-trigger=\"inline-related-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMike Hagerty: 5 Things About The \u2018Friends\u2019 Actor Dead At 67\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/aside><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] View gallery Image Credit: Everett Collection Matthew Perry \u201cfelt nothing\u201d after filming the finale of Friends.\u00a0The actor admitted he was emotionally numbed and excessive on opiates through the NBC sitcom\u2019s ultimate days in his e book Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir, the place he particulars his battle with substance abuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}