“Friends” is a comfort show to many, and it just seems to get better over time. But while fans may enjoy tuning into the show, Matthew Perry refused to watch it. In 2022, he told “Q with Tom Power” the reason he didn’t like watching the show was because he could tell what pills or alcohol he was taking just by watching any given scene. He explained, “I didn’t watch the show and haven’t watched the show because I could go drinking… opiates… drinking… cocaine. Like I could tell season by season by how I looked.”
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To Perry, watching the show only brought a wave of bad memories about his addiction, per People. He further explained this in his memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.” He shared, “You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season — when I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee, it’s lots of pills.” Throughout his time on the show, Perry’s weight fluctuated because of his addiction. He even recalled a moment during the show when he wore the same clothes for the end of season 6 and the beginning of season 7, but by the time season 7 rolled around, the clothes were drowning him. He revealed, “My weight varied between 128 pounds and 225 pounds during the years of ‘Friends.'”
