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In his new memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, Friends' superstar Matthew Perry is getting candid with his intense battle with addiction.
"I've probably spent $9 million or something trying to get sober," Perry told the New York Times.
According to E! News, Perry said: "I would fake back injuries. I would fake migraine headaches. I had eight doctors going at the same time. I would wake up and have to get 55 Vicodin that day, and figure out how to do it. When you're a drug addict, it's all math. I go to this place, and I need to take three. And then I go to this place, and I'm going to take five because I'm going to be there longer. It's exhausting but you have to do it or you get very, very sick."
He went on, "I wasn't doing it to feel high or to feel good. I certainly wasn't a partyer; I just wanted to sit on my couch, take five Vicodin and watch a movie. That was heaven for me. It no longer is."
E! News also reports Perry has been sober for 18 months and says, "It's still a day-to-day process of getting better. Every day," he said. "It doesn't end because I did this...Whenever I bumped into something that I didn't really want to share... I would think of the people that I would be helping, and it would keep me going."
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