Matthew Perry once said he couldn’t watch ‘Friends’ because he was ‘brutally thin’

and ‘beaten down so badly’ by addiction while filming

Matthew Perry, the actor best known for his role as quick-witted Chandler Bing on “Friends,” once said he couldn’t watch the sitcom because his appearance was a reminder of his alcoholism and

opioid addiction.

Perry, who died Saturday at age 54, made the revelation to podcaster Tom Power on CBC Radio while promoting his memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” in November 2022.

“I was taking 55 Vicodin a day. I weighed 128 pounds,” Perry told Power. “I was on ‘Friends,’ getting watched by 30 million people, and that’s why I can’t watch the show. I was, like, brutally thin and being beaten down so badly by the disease.”

According to the Los Angeles Times, police found Perry at his Los Angeles-area home around 4 p.m. on Saturday. Law enforcement sources who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the ongoing investigation told the outlet Perry was discovered unresponsive in his hot tub. While sources didn’t cite a cause of death, they said there was no foul play suspected, and no drugs were found at the scene.