If you were an avid fan of “Friends” star Matthew Perry, then you will remember his past relationship with Julia Roberts back in the 90s.
Perry recently spilled the dirt on why he broke up with Roberts during their brief 2-month relationship.
“I felt like I would never be enough for her,” Perry recalls his emotions of when they dated.
The 53-year-old actor got candid about how his own mental turmoil lead to the end of their relationship in his new memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.”
“We had started dating by the time Julia had a cameo on an episode of my show “Friends”, but thinks took a turn for the worse, Perry reminisced. “Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me. I felt like she was slumming it by dating me.”
“Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unlovable. So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts,” he confessed.
Perry said he can’t even put into words the look of confusion on Julia’s face when he broke up with her.
The whirlwind romance blossomed after Roberts, who went onto wed Danny Moder, claimed she would “only do the show” if she got to be a part of Perry’s character’s storyline.
After that, Perry, who played Chandler Bing on the hit show, tried to woo Roberts by sending her dozens of roses and sweet messages, including a paper on quantum physics.
“Not only did Julia agree to do the show, but she also sent me a gift: bagels, lots and lots of bagels. I did let her in, both figuratively and literally, and a relationship began, “Perry said.
However, during the same time that Perry was starring on one of the biggest TV shows and dating Hollywood’s finest, he was also battling drug and alcohol addiction.
Perry, who starred on the sitcom from 1994-2004, had to go to rehab twice during the show’s 10-year stint, including after filming the iconic moment his character married Monica Geller, played by Courteney Cox.
“I filmed the Season 7 finale and was then driven back to the treatment center in a pickup truck helmed by a sober technician. I was at the height of my highest point in ‘Friends,’ the highest point in my career, the iconic moment on the iconic show,” he said, adding that his “exhausting” opiod addiction ruined his ability to embrace being on the NBC sitcom.
Not only did his addiction take a major toll on his career, but also his bank account.
“I’ve probably spent $9 million or something trying to get sober,” he told the outlet about his decades-long struggle that started at just 14.
At the height of his addiction, the actor was taking “55 Vicodin a day,” in addition to “Methadone, Xanax” and “a full quart of vodka.”
Perry’s memoir is out on Nov. 1 to hear more intimate details on the actors trying past.
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