WTF Happened to Matthew Perry?

Seasons three through six of friends had some of Chandler being's funniest most character defining moments there he's handcuffed without pants to a filing cabinet remaining in time out in a box for nearly a full episode hooking up with and later marrying Monica we all fondly remember all of those funny friends moments but you know who doesn't remember them Matthew Perry who says that those seasons were a blur due to his problems with substance abuse so yeah is he still abusing those substances or did Mr Perry get better or what who knows let's find out what the [ __ ] happened to Matthew Perry but to truly understand what the [ __ ] happened to Matthew Perry we must begin at the beginning of the beginning began when he was born on his birthday Massachusetts 1969. he was the son of two two prominent people his father was actor John Bennett Perry and his mother Susan later served as press secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau father of Justin who Matthew Perry says he beat up in school young Matthew Perry developed an interest in acting moving from Canada to LA to live with his father who was a famous actor Little Maddie P started out with small bits on shows like 240 Robert A series that starred his father and is considered lost and the HBO sketch series not necessarily the news in 1983 along with more popular fare like Charles in Charge and Silver Spoons after the TV movie morning Maggie Perry got his first consistent acting job on the fox sitcom Second Chance AKA boys will be boys which was retitled to focus more on Perry's character Chas I'm Debbie Miller why are you ever but it only lasted one season but the year that it ended 1988 was a turning point for the actor although most of us probably haven't heard of these titles Matthew Perry was getting steady work and lots of TV movies and sitcoms like the TV movie dance till Dawn and the sitcom just the 10 of us he had a two-stint episode on the fantasy Highway to Heaven and his feature debut a night in the life of Jimmy Reardon starring River Phoenix another actor who battled with substance abuse then 1989 Matthew Perry appeared in the Tony Danza comedy she's out of control not to mention a pretty good three-episode arc on Growing Pains playing Tracy Gold's boyfriend who drinks and drives resulting in his death this was a part of that very special episode craze that sitcoms we're doing and you know what it was a very special episode mostly because of Matthew Perry's performance playing a young man who is dealing with substance abuse problems which unfortunately would foreshadow the real life of Matthew Perry his real life growing pains around this time he would call it quits on being credited as Matthew L Perry and dropping that L seemed like sort of a good luck charm since immediately after doing that he landed his first lead in a sitcom co-headlining cbs's Sydney in 1990 Perry also played Desi Arnaz Jr in something called call me Anna in 1990 and he appeared on my favorite show Beverly Hills 90210 while also showing up on Dream On And sibs before sticking another series 1990 3's home free for ABC which lasted 11 episodes two of which never aired and there was Doug lyman's getting in man yes Perry would soon be getting into the business in a major way there would be some more TV movies like deadly relations in 1993 and parallel lives in 1994 as well as LAX 2194. this thing LAX 2194 is an unaired pilot that Matthew Perry was too busy doing to initially take a little show called six of one so yeah there was this show called six of one and one of the six original actors dropped out and that LAX 2194 thing didn't happen so Matthew Perry was suddenly available to join the cast of six of one which fortunately was renamed to friend where Matthew Perry plays the youngest member of these friends Mr Chandler Bing who's the sarcastic one says here that a muppet got whacked on Sesame Street last night where exactly were you around tennis he was always saying funny silly funny silly funny silly things and quickly became a fan favorite Matthew Perry and the rest of the cast would end up earning one million dollars per episode in the last two seasons of France which is up from around 22 000 an episode on the first season but all this money tragically would come in handy for those drug-fueled demons that haunt the nightmares of Matthew Perry it was during this run that Matthew Perry went full on with his drug addiction he always wanted to be famous always wanted to be in the spotlight always wanted to be a part of Showbiz but neglected to take into account the Dark Side of Fame and Fortune first becoming addicted to Vicodin following a jet ski accident in 1997 something that would later turn into a 55 pill a day habit this was only enhanced by the mounting pressures of shooting Fools Rush In in 1997 which is a fun innocent yet generic flick that proved that Matthew Perry could handle himself on the big screen like I said this romantic comedy ain't exactly groundbreaking but it's nice it's fun in 1998 Matthew Perry co-starred opposite the late great Chris Farley in the film Almost Heroes and this Duo right here it was far from the Chris Farley David Spade pairing yeah both of these guys are funny but it just it just didn't click the chemistry wasn't there the material wasn't there and unfortunately this movie Almost Heroes remains a tarnish on Chris Farley's filmography another actor who battled with substance abuse 1999 would bring on another non-challenging romantic comedy called three to tango while the next year saw a decent enough film called The Whole Nine Yards which is actually a really funny gangster comedy that excels more due to Bruce Willis and his chemistry with well everybody and yes that includes Matthew Perry so yeah the whole nine yards it's probably his best movie but that same year Matthew Perry suffered from pancreatitis brought on by alcohol abuse something that his friends co-stars tried and failed to get him off of his friends were acting like friends but by the year 2001 Matthew Perry was heavily into alcohol Vicodin methadone and amphetamines he was doing all of that stuff all the time you can even see it in episodes of friends he has dramatic weight gains and weight losses like sometimes he has like two or three chins and then sometimes he has one Matthew Perry's drug and alcohol addiction came to a head in 2002 while he was filming the movie serving Sarah with Elizabeth Hurley with less than two weeks left in production his addictions truly started affecting his work as his court of vodka a day habit sent him to much needed rehab rehabilitation but Matthew Perry says that he only went because he was sure that he was gonna die Mr Matthew Perry estimates that he spent around nine million dollars to get sober returning to rehab more than 60 times the next few years would see him show up on Ally McBeal and we saw Perry giving drama a legit go with three episodes on The West Wing earning two Emmy combinations and co-starring in his first play David mamet's sexual perversity in Chicago more commonly known for its big screen adaptation about last night but Matthew Perry could not avoid comedy because you know he's a funny guy next starring in the pointless sequel the whole 10 yards and directing an episode of Scrubs alongside his father following the end of friends in 2004 many of the cast wondered what would come of their careers and Matthew Perry waited like two years to do anything but eventually he got in front of the camera starring in the TV movie The Ron Clark Story earning Emmy Golden Globe and SAG nominations the dude is a talented actor y'all at least the Emmys the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild peoples think so and they're always right right but so began a Fairly reliable pattern of passable but still forgettable TV and and movie work and that pattern still kinda seems to be active there was the promising but failed one-season Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip where he played the head writer of an snl-esque type show there was 2007's numb which went to DTV in the U.S despite a strong enough turn as a depressed person with mental health issues he was in birds of America an indie and a pretty okay Charming movie called 17 again I think he plays older Zac Efron so Zac Efron is gonna grow up to look like Matthew Perry y'all according to this movie 17 again but yeah this movie 17 Again it came out in the year 2009 and surprisingly and unjustly this remains his most recent feature film that's right Matthew Perry hasn't been in a movie since 17 Again which was in 2009 which is like years ago if you do math then game the 2010s which started off with potential with the creators of Fallout Las Vegas giving him a voice in the video game because he loves the series apparently 2011 brought another series called ABC's Mr Sunshine which Matthew Perry co-starred and wrote episodes of but that was canceled after just Nine episodes Perry again returned to drama with a four-episode Arc as an attorney on The Good Wife which he'd reprise for a 2017 three-episode run on the good fight then Matthew Perry yet again was given a shot at headlining a sitcom playing a sports caster on go on which yeah was canceled after one season the same year that ended Matthew Perry gave back in the most noble of ways opening a Malibu rehab center for people who were struggling with the same problems he is or was or is but unfortunately this Malibu rehab center was shut down in 2015 but it did last twice as long as most of his TV shows so there's that then Matthew Perry was a part of The Odd Couple reboot which somehow lasted three seasons but you know what Matthew Perry his love of acting on the stage never went away and he went back to the stage riding something called the end of longing which played in London and Off-Broadway in 2017 Perry played another character who was also dealing with substance abuse so I'm sure he pulled from his personal life to bring this character to life and that character was famous Boozer Ted Kennedy in the TV movie the Kennedys f after Camelot and then his colon exploded no really his aggressive Oxy Cotton abuse in the later part of the decade led to an explosion of his colon an exploded colon unfortunately leaving him with a colostomy bag his abuse also would put him in a coma with two weeks on life support with doctors giving him a two percent chance of survival and all of this is detailed graphically and effectively in his 2022 Memoir friends lovers and the big terrible thing available wherever you can buy stuff that you read but yeah actually in all seriousness here you should actually give a [ __ ] about what the [ __ ] happened to Matthew Perry because there's a lesson here and that lesson is my friends don't [ __ ] do drugs and through it all canceled TV shows drug addictions almost [ __ ] dying Matthew Perry three survived and has been sober since 2021. congratulations Mr Perry we are all proud of you thank you for stopping all of all of that drugs and stuff could he be any luckier could he be any more blessed could he be in anything else that's gonna be good and successful I don't know let's find out what the [ __ ] are you gonna do next Matthew Perry but you know what it really doesn't matter because the performance of your life has been overcoming this horrible addiction so it really doesn't matter if Matthew Perry makes another good movie or another good TV show ever again because being alive is more important than movies and television WTF thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign

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Length: 15min 45sec (945 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 14 2023