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How Matthew Perry Misused Substances to Treat His Depression
Us Weekly and the harris project's 'The Missing Issue' revisits the late Matthew Perry's struggles with substance abuse and depression
To the millions who came to love him as his quick-witted, sarcastic but sweet character Chandler Bing on the sitcom smash hit Friends, he was handsome, charming and funny — and magnetic enough to influence pop culture forever with his iconic inflections that couldn’t be anyone else’s. “Had I done so just once, I would not now be sitting in a huge house, overlooking the ocean, with no one to share it with, save a sober companion, a nurse and a gardener twice a week.” He wrote about dating Natasha Wagner, Natalie Wood ’s daughter, and said she was “beautiful, smart,” and “had it all.” Years after their relationship ended, she called to tell him she’d welcomed a baby girl. Courtesy Everett Collection In the last days before his death, Perry was “happy,” his stepfather Keith Morrison said in a March 2024 interview on Hoda Kotb ’s Making Space podcast.
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