Friends star Matthew Perry appears dishevelled in rare outing
Matthew Perry has been spotted making a quick outfit change during a shopping trip in LA, months after his last public sighting.
Matthew Perry has appeared looking dishevelled in a rare public outing, just under one year after releasing his tell-all memoir.
The Friends star appeared to be on an urgent shopping trip in Los Angeles, as he was spotted heading into popular mall The Grove last Monday, dressed in a pair of scruffy navy trackpants, a grey shirt and red cap.
A short time later, Perry, 54, emerged from the Nike shop in an entirely different – and clearly brand-new – outfit, featuring one of the brand’s classic black polo shirt and shorts.
The actor was accompanied by his assistant for the outing.
Perry has kept a low profile in recent years, and was most recently seen emerging from his Hidden Hills home on a coffee run in February, where he appeared dishevelled.
The Whole Nine Yards star also made a rare public appearance last November on the red carpet at the 2022 GQ Men of the Year party, dressed more sharply in a black blazer over a grey T-shirt.
Perry generated plenty of headlines that same month after sharing the shocking details of his past in his bombshell memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.
In the book, he opened up about his decades-long addiction to drugs and alcohol, revealing that he’d almost died during that time.
Perry recounted how his family was told he had a 2 per cent chance of survival after his colon burst from opioid overuse when he was just 49 years old. The horrifying ordeal saw him spend two weeks in a coma and requiring a colostomy bag for nine months.
In October, he told People magazine that his addiction issues had just started to surface when he was cast on Friends at the age of 24, and that at its horrifying peak, he was taking 55 Vicodin a day and weighed only 58 kgs.
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“I could handle it, kind of. But by the time I was 34, I was really entrenched in a lot of trouble,” he admits. “But there were years that I was sober during that time. Season 9 was the year that I was sober the whole way through. And guess which season I got nominated for best actor? I was like, ‘That should tell me something.’”
However, he struggled to get on top of it for years.
“I didn’t know how to stop,” he said. “If the police came over to my house and said, ‘If you drink tonight, we’re going to take you to jail,’ I’d start packing. I couldn’t stop because the disease and the addiction is progressive. So it gets worse and worse as you grow older.”