John Mulaney (left) and Matthew Perry.Photo:Jamie McCarthy/Getty; Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic
Jamie McCarthy/Getty; Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic
John Mulaneyis sharing howMatthew Perry’s candor about his addiction had a great influence on his own struggles with substances.
“Addiction is just a disaster,” Mulaney, 41, explained toVariety. “Life is like a wobbly table at a restaurant and you pile all this s— on it, and it gets wobblier and wobblier and more unstable. Then drugs just kick the f—ing legs out from under the table.”
“I really identified with his story. I’m thinking about him a lot,” he added.
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On Oct. 28, Perry wasfound deadafter an apparent drowning in a hot tub in the backyard of his Los Angeles home.
According toTMZ, who first reported the death news, law enforcement sources indicated that there were no drugs found at the scene. There were also no signs of foul play present.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to PEOPLE that an autopsy has been completed and results are pending a toxicology report. However, an online record has the status of the actor’s cause of death currently listed as “deferred” since it’s “pending additional investigation.”
Matthew Perry.David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty
David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty
Perry released his memoirFriends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible ThinginNovember 2022. He had always been honest about his struggles with addiction in hopes of helping others. With 15 rehab stints under his belt, he insisted that he’d mostly been sober since 2001 “with about 60 or 70 little mishaps over the years,” as hetoldPeoplein October 2022.
“I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side again,” he said of his intentions behind his memoir. “I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober—and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction—to write it all down. I was pretty certain that it would help people if I did.”
“Going to rehab and a lot of other things had become public knowledge, and I felt there was no way to start doing stand-up again without going through this,” he toldVariety. “I also had a lot to say about it. It had been an extremely eventful time, and the goal from the beginning was to do this as funny as I could make it — not as impactful as I could make it, not to pause for dramatic effect.
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“I just wanted it to be a little wilder and put you in my very confident, demented brain during the time of addiction,” he said.
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, please contact the SAMHSA helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.
source: people.com
