He added that by the finale of season three in 1996, he was attempting to take 55 Vicodin, an opioid pain reliever, every day.
Still, there was one and only season of Friends when the Chandler Bing actor was clean. It was Season 9, and Perry was able to stay "completely sober" for the entirety of it.
Perry, 53, shares that by the end of the third season of the hit NBC sitcom, on which he played Chandler Bing, he was trying to obtain 55 Vicodin a day — otherwise he'd get “so sick”.
Writing in his forthcoming memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (viaThe New York Times), explained that he was receiving treatment for his addiction while filming season seven of the show, which included the episode “The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding”.
Matthew Perry suffered from pancreatitis in 2000 (before 7th season) and lost 20 pounds. That's why he looked different in the beginning of season 7.
His addiction is the reason why he has various weight fluctuations and changed so much during the last seasons. Tetsuko is right. After he got rid of drugs, he put on a lot of weight.
Yes. Matthew Perry was suffering from drug addiction (to Eutanazol) and lost 20 pounds due to pancreatitis in 2000.
Basically, Chandler gets hit by an ice cream truck and tragedy ensues following his death. The five remaining friends mourn his absence, with Monica drowning her sorrows in drugs, alcohol, and Joey.
Perry reveals in the book that due to addiction, he nearly died at age 49 when his colon burst from opioid overuse. He was in a coma for two weeks and spent five months in the hospital. "I could handle it, kind of.
In the second episode of Friends season 9, "The One Where Emma Cries," Chandler fell asleep during an important meeting at his workplace and accidentally accepted an offer to move to Oklahoma to run a division of the company in Tulsa. Chandler had no choice but to commute between Tulsa and New York City.
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Originally Answered: Why is Chandler so thin in season 3? Because that time he was battling a serious addiction to drugs and alcohol. Matthew Perry, the actor who played Chandler Bing on the television show Friends, struggled with substance abuse and addiction during the filming of the show.
One of the many bombshells he's discussed is the fact that his front teeth fell out while he was biting into peanut butter on toast, which is why he had to have them all replaced.
“Watch the final episode of season six and the first of season seven — the Chandler-Monica proposal episodes,” he writes. “I'm wearing the same clothes in both, since it's supposed to be the same night, but I must have lost three and a half stone [50 pounds] in the off-season.”
In actual fact, Chandler seems to regularly suffer from amnesia.
Apparently, the dental surgery left the actor "in pain," which caused the slurred speech. "Obviously no one wants to film after a procedure, but it happened.
The star, who played the popular Chandler Bing in Friends for ten series, spent most of this time addicted to alcohol and prescription drugs. Perry has now spoken out about how his addictions affected him and the fact that it was all happening in the public eye.
In a second excerpt in The Times, Perry recalled going though his 55-pill-a-day painkiller habit during the Friends era. "I've detoxed more than 25 times in my life — but the first was when I was 26," he wrote.
Chandler tries using patches to quit smoking, but gives up at the end of the episode, and announces he is getting cigarettes. Phoebe then offers him the $7,000 in return for not smoking again; Chandler gladly obliges.
Chandler was diagnosed as having sperm “motility” problems, a condition whereby sperm are incapable, for a variety of reasons, of moving through the female reproductive tract. Or, as Chandler jokingly explained: His guys won't get off the Barcalounger, and the ones that do, Monica's uterus wants to kill them.
Meanwhile, Chandler begins dating Rachel's boss, Joanna (Alison LaPlaca), again. Rachel wants Chandler to end it as the last time she almost got fired. Chandler visits Joanna in her office to break up with her, but they end up kissing with Chandler out of his pants.
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“When I'm carrying weight, it's alcohol; when I'm skinny, it's pills. When I have a goatee, it's lots of pills.” Perry, 53, shares that by the end of the third season of the hit NBC sitcom, on which he played Chandler Bing, he was trying to obtain 55 Vicodin a day — otherwise he'd get “so sick.”
During his conversation with Sawyer, the talk show host asked Perry if they could rewatch a clip from season three of the sitcom – released in 1997 – in which the actor looked “painfully thin”.
However Coming on Chandler, we may assume that during the final seasons the actors were getting older and to keep themselves in the character they had to apply lot of makeup / get lot of facial treatments ,so either Mathew Perry got the worst deal by makeup artists or he went to the famous tanning salon - the sun , ...