Matthew Perry Reveals How Jennifer Aniston , Confronted Him Over His Substance Abuse.<br />Matthew Perry Reveals How Jennifer Aniston , Confronted Him Over His Substance Abuse.<br />CNN reports that in his new book, 'Friends, Lovers and <br />the Big Terrible Thing,' Perry shares how his former <br />co-star, Aniston, called him out about drinking alcohol. .<br />CNN reports that in his new book, 'Friends, Lovers and <br />the Big Terrible Thing,' Perry shares how his former <br />co-star, Aniston, called him out about drinking alcohol. .<br />‘I know you’re drinking,’ she said. <br />‘How can you tell?’ I said. <br />I never worked drunk. <br />‘I’ve been trying to hide it …’, Matthew Perry, via 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.<br />‘We can smell it,’ she said, in a kind of weird but loving way, and the plural ‘we’ hit me like a sledgehammer, Matthew Perry, via 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.<br />Perry says he told Aniston, "I know I'm drinking too much, but I don't exactly know what to do about it.".<br />Perry goes on to talk about the <br />struggles he had with Vicodin too.<br />You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season – when I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee, <br />it’s lots of pills, Matthew Perry, via 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.<br />You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season – when I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee, <br />it’s lots of pills, Matthew Perry, via 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.<br />By the end of season three, I was spending most of my time figuring out how to get 55 Vicodin a day – <br />I had to have 55 every day, otherwise I’d get so sick. <br />It was a full-time job: making calls, seeing doctors, faking migraines, finding crooked nurses who <br />would give me what I needed, Matthew Perry, via 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.<br />When speaking about the book, Perry explained <br />why he wanted to share his story now.<br />I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again. I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober – and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction – to write it all down. And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that <br />it would help people, Matthew Perry, via CNN
