Matthew Perry opened up about the experience of living in a rehab facility to deal with what would become a decades-long struggle with addiction during the height of filming 'Friends.'
Perry revealed that his father lashed out at"Friends" co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane — threatening to"pull off your television show" — when they inquired if Perry, who had told the pair he was now sober, was ready to come back to film the wedding.
Perry recalled being moved from the rehab facility where he was staying to the Promises treatment center in Malibu, where he was told he would need"months" more to recover. "I married Monica and got driven back to the treatment center — at the height of my highest point in 'Friends,' the highest point in my career, the iconic moment on the iconic show — in a pickup truck helmed by a sober technician," he writes.Elsewhere in the book, Perry recalled that despite his co-stars"sobbing" all around himAt the time, Perry was taking buprenorphine,"a detox med," designed to help addicts withdrawal from harder opioids.
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