Matthew Perry has struggled with addiction not only to alcohol, but also to drugs and pills throughout his life. He was so bad that not only did he not remember three years of filming Friends, but there were times when, according to his own words, he swallowed up to 55 pills a day. In his autobiography Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, he revealed the shocking background of his addiction. His own parents had been doping him with numbing pills literally since he was born.
Matthew Perry is dead. This sad news went around the world on the night from Saturday to Sunday. The representative of Chandler from the now cult series Friends had, according to the website TMZ.com drown in your own hot tub. Although the circumstances of his death are still under investigation, according to available information it was not someone else’s fault.
Perry was on the pill for a month after birth
Just a year before his death, Perry published a memoir that revealed the background of his addictions. It was a shocking read. The star of the film My Neighbor the Killer confided that he was drugged with sedatives just one month after birth.
“I came into the world screaming and I didn’t stop screaming. For weeks. I suffered from colic, stomach problems from the very beginning. My parents were driven crazy by the incessant crying. Crazy. Worried, so they took me to the doctor.” he recalled in his autobiography titled Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, translated by Friends, Lovers and the Big, Awful Thing Perry. According to him, it was 1969. Even so, he wonders what treatment his pediatrician at the time gave him.
“How evolved our civilization must be to understand that giving a child breathing divine air barely two months Phenobarbital is an interesting approach to pediatrics at best. But in the 1960s, it was not unusual for a doctor to inject a powerful barbiturate into the parents of a child suffering from colic. Some older doctors didn’t allow it to happen, and by THAT I mean “prescribing a strong barbiturate to a newborn baby who cries all the time,” wrote Perry, who repeated several times that he certainly does not blame his parents, who were just following the doctor’s advice .
“Your baby keeps crying, something’s obviously wrong, the doctor prescribes medicine, he’s not the only doctor who thinks it’s a good idea to give medicine to a baby and it stops crying. Those were different times,” shocked Perry in his memoirs, saying that he was receiving Phenobarbital during the second month of his life, a time that is an important developmental period for a child, especially when it comes to sleep.
He didn’t get rid of the pills
“Fifty years later, I still have trouble sleeping. I was put on a barbiturate and it totally blew me away. Apparently I screamed and screamed, then the powder took over, it cut me off, and my father burst out laughing. No, he wasn’t heartless, but drugged kids are seriously funny. I have photos from that time that clearly show me at the age of seven weeks completely out of hell and half in limbo as an addict. Which is actually kind of oddly fitting for a kid born the day after Woodstock.” recalled Matthew Perry, saying that his parents simply jumped at the option of giving him a sedative to calm him down and stop crying.
He came into contact with barbiturates very often even in adulthood. And this time by prescription. “It would probably surprise the public to know that I have been mostly sober since 2001. That is, apart from about sixty or seventy minor stumbles. And when those slip ups happen and you want to quit again, which I always wanted to, they give you medication to make it easier. What drugs are you asking? Phenobarbital – bingo. Barbiturates calm you down while you try to get any other crap out of your body. And I started taking them when I was thirty days old, so as an adult I just picked up where I left off,” Perry laughed at the irony of fate, who made no secret of the fact that he hates abstinence the best and is not a good patient. “Detox is hell. I feel like I’m dying with him,” said Matthew Perry, who died at 54.
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