Matthew Perry Was Excessive & ‘Felt Nothing’ Throughout ‘Associates’ Finale – Hollywood Life

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Matthew Perry “felt nothing” after filming the finale of Associates. The actor admitted he was emotionally numbed and excessive on opiates through the NBC sitcom’s closing days in his e book Associates, Lovers, and the Large Horrible Factor: A Memoir, the place he particulars his battle with substance abuse and the load of fame.

“It was January 23, 2004,” he remembers within the e book, which got here out Nov. 1. “The keys on the counter, a man who appeared lots like Chandler Bing mentioned, ‘The place?’ ‘Embryonic Journey’ by Jefferson Airplane performed, the digital camera panned to the again of the condominium door, then Ben, our first AD, and really shut good friend, shouted for the final time, ‘That’s a wrap,’ and tears sprang from nearly everybody’s eyes like so many geysers.”

“We had made 237 episodes, together with this final one, referred to as, appropriately sufficient, ‘The Final One.’ (Jennifer) Aniston was sobbing — after some time, I used to be amazed she had any water left in her total physique. Even Matt LeBlanc was crying.”

Matthew, nonetheless, felt hole. “However I felt nothing,” he goes on within the e book. “I couldn’t inform if that was due to the opioid buprenorphine I used to be taking, or if I used to be simply usually lifeless inside.” Although he began taking buprenorphine as a “detox med,” he’d been taking the notoriously difficult-to-withdraw-from drug for eight months at that time.

The remaining was a daze. He remembered, “So, as a substitute of sobbing, I took a sluggish stroll across the stage with my then-girlfriend — additionally appropriately referred to as Rachel — stage 24 at Warner Bros. in Burbank (a stage that after the present ended could be renamed “The Associates Stage.”) “We mentioned our numerous goodbyes, agreeing to see one another quickly in the way in which that folks do after they understand it’s not true, after which we headed out to my automobile.”