{"id":29709,"date":"2022-12-06T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/matthew-perry-explains-why-he-cant-rewatch-friends-today\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:24:07","slug":"matthew-perry-explains-why-he-cannot-rewatch-friends-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/matthew-perry-explains-why-he-cannot-rewatch-friends-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry explains why he cannot rewatch &#8216;Friends&#8217; right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_95\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Matthew Perry has defined why he can\u2019t rewatch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/series\/friends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Friends <\/em><\/a>anymore.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/friends-the-reunion-best-moments-2950054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Friends: The Reunion<\/em>: one of the best moments \u2013 and the way outdated they\u2019ll make you&#8217;re feeling<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The actor, who performed Chandler Bing within the long-running sitcom, opened up about his struggles with dependancy whereas in dialog with <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/videos\/entertainment\/2022\/12\/05\/matthew-perry-addiction-friends-cprog-orig-aw.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>CNN<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was taking 55 Vicodin a day, I weighed 128lbs, I was on <i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Friends<\/i> getting watched by 30 million people \u2013 and that\u2019s why I can\u2019t watch the show, cause I was brutally thin,\u201d Perry\u00a0 mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t watch the show, and haven\u2019t watched the show, because I could go, \u2018Drinking, opiates, drinking, cocaine\u2019. I could tell season by season by how I looked. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t wanna watch it, because that\u2019s what I see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor went on to say his struggles with dependancy are \u201cnot fair\u201d compared to the expertise of his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, the thing that always makes me cry \u2013 and I hope I don\u2019t cry here \u2013 is that it\u2019s not fair. It\u2019s not, it\u2019s not fair,\u201d Perry mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not fair that I had to go through this disease while the other five didn\u2019t. They got everything that I got, but I had to fight this thing \u2013 and still have to fight this thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this yr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/tv\/matthew-perry-had-to-beg-friends-producers-to-change-his-signature-intonation-3341436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perry mentioned he \u201chad to beg\u201d the producers of\u00a0<em>Friends<\/em> to alter the way in which his traces have been delivered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat particular cadence \u2013 could it <em>be<\/em> more annoying? \u2013 had been so played out that if I had to put the emphasis in the wrong place one more time, I thought I\u2019d explode, so I just went back to saying lines normally, for the most part in season six and then beyond,\u201d he defined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Matthew Perry has defined why he can\u2019t rewatch\u00a0Friends anymore. 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