The death of Matthew Perry has shocked the world — but his constant struggles with drug addiction were on full display in an interview with Diane Sawyer last year -- and they even discussed his impending doom.
with the legendary journalist to promote his memoir during an ABC News segment in October 2022 — and the conversation turned dark almost immediately.Sawyer read a passage from the book titled,"Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir," quoting Perry as saying, “My friends call me Matty and I should be dead." With a serious, yet troubled look on his face, Perry responded, “That’s definitely true.
Sawyer continued to quote from Perry's book, asserting that addicts can only beat drug addiction with a healthy support group. Perry replied that his addiction was always waiting to get him alone so he could fill his time by using drugs, in which case he admitted,"You lose to the disease."Saturday in a jacuzzi at his L.A.-area home after first responders received a call of a person in cardiac arrest. Investigators believe Perry drowned and are awaiting the results of toxicology tests to determine his cause of death.
He went on to talk about his seemingly never-ending battle with the pain killer Vicodin, disclosing he ingested a jaw-dropping 55 pills per day. Visibly stunned, Sawyer asked how he could get so many pills.He also said he stayed sober for long periods of time -- but then he would get cocky, thinking,"I've got this" and"I don't need to learn anymore." As a result, Perry stopped going to 12-step meetings, leading him down the path of using drugs again.
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