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Matthew Perry Had A Serious Drug Problem For Most Of The Show

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Matthew Perry has always been pretty open about his problems with drug addiction, but it’s shocking just how much it affected him on the show. Perry went to rehab for an addiction to prescription drugs and alcohol once in 1997, and again in 2001.

He told People, “I was never high at work. I was painfully hung over. Then eventually things got so bad I couldn’t hide it, and everybody knew.”