Matthew Perry struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for years. It all started after he was injured in a jet ski accident in 1997 and was prescribed Vicodin for the pain, but eventually, Matthew used it to get high, per The New York Post. Over the next decade, Matthew would have moments of sobriety but would eventually relapse. Many of the actor’s closest friends and family knew about his struggles with addiction, including his famous father, John Bennett Perry.
In his memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” the actor recalled a moment in his life when he had decided to live with his father during a time when he was sober. However, this living situation would lead Matthew to consider cutting off John from his fortune completely. “It was like I was fifteen again, living with my dad in California,” Matthew wrote. “A car would come to pick me up every day to take me to film ‘Friends.'”
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Although he was sober when he entered the house, he wasn’t when he left. While living with John, Matthew relapsed and would sneak drugs and alcohol into his father’s home. The actor’s addiction got so bad and irked not only John but his wife, and they eventually asked him to leave. Matthew recalled being heated by how his father had kicked him out. “‘Oh, I’ll leave, but neither of you will ever see a dime of my money, ever,’ I thought, but I did not say,” he recalled in his memoir.
