Matthew Perry Wanted To Help People Get Sober, Even When He Couldn’t.

There are a few reasons why I particularly liked this man I’d never met. One, Friends was on TV during my formative childhood though young adult years (1994–2004) and Chandler Bing’s humor, timing, mannerisms and simmering pathos is likely the reason <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/oct/29/alcoholic-troubled-life-matthew-perry-addicted-substance#:~:text=Chandler%20and%20Monica%20are%20still%20an%20aspirational%20model%20for%20an%20equal%20partnership" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">I’m attracted to neurotic, sarcastic men IRL</a>. Two, he was a Canadian-American actor who made it huge in Hollywood, and us Canucks tend to love and follow our own. And three,<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485842/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip </a>came out the year I moved to New York after college, and former roommate of the Missive Greg and I used to watch it together every week — I still wish it had had another season. But, sadly and quite importantly, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Friends-Lovers-Big-Terrible-Thing/dp/B0B4BQQBGL/ref=asc_df_B0B4BQQBGL/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=598244024349&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9458442333081143456&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031951&hvtargid=pla-1686895751450&psc=1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Matthew Perry struggled with substance abuse disorder</a> and was public about it. And so do I, and so am I. <a href="https://medium.com/the-morning-missive/matthew-perry-wanted-to-help-people-get-sober-even-when-he-couldnt-fbaf235e7d3b">Read More</a>