Courteney Cox spills on Matthew Perry’s struggles during Friends

Courteney Cox has opened up about the “pressure” co-star Matthew Perry put on himself while filming Friends, admitting that he “struggled”.

Matthew Perry put an immense amount of “pressure” on himself to get laughs on Friends, his former co-star and friend Courteney Cox said in a new interview.

“He’s just struggled for a while,” Cox told the Times of Londonin a new interview. “I think he’s doing great now.”

The actress added that Perry – who previously admitted he would “freak out” if a line fell flat – put “a lot of pressure on himself”, reports the New York Post.

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Cox and Perry played on-screen couple Monica and Chandler. Picture: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

“So much has been written about me in the past. I thought it was time people heard from me,” he captioned an Instagram photo of the cover of the book, titled, Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible Thing.

“The highs were high, the lows were low. But I have lived to tell the tale, even though at times it looked like I wouldn’t. And it’s all in here. I apologise it’s not a pop-up book.”

It was previously reported the Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip star inked seven figures in the book deal.

Perry famously said during a 2016 interview that he couldn’t remember filming multiple seasons of Friends, in which he played Chandler Bing.

The show wrapped up in 2004. Picture: Warner Bros./Everett Collection

“I don’t remember three years of it,” he told BBC Radio 2 at the time. “Somewhere between Seasons 3 and 6 … I was a little out of it.”

Cox, meanwhile, told the Times of London that she never gets sick of talking about the hit show.

“No, that was such a huge part of my life. It was such a lucky situation that I fell into the show, and I went through so many things in those 10 years,” she said.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

Originally published as Courteney Cox spills on Matthew Perry’s struggles during Friends