The world is still mourning Matthew Perry. In a new interview, his sister, Mia Perry Bowick, opened up about her brother and one of the most emotional moments she experienced when watching the TV show "Friends."
© GettyPerry Bowick recently spoke to PEOPLE, and one of her memories was watching the episode when Chandler, Perry's character, marries Monica, played by Courteney Cox.
“We all knew how serious his disorder was, so there was this sense of, ‘Who knows what’s going to happen?’” she said. “Watching that wedding, we all knew he wanted that in life. He wanted a partner, he wanted kids.”
Perry Bowick will be featured in a documentary discussing Perry's death. The documentary is called “The One About Matthew Perry" and will premiere on Oct. 27 on Netflix.
Perry had a lifelong struggle with addiction, and he opened up about his experiences in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing."
He revealed that the series, which ran for 10 seasons and almost a decade, documents the ups and downs of his addiction. “When I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee, it’s lots of pills,” he wrote.
Perry's fought addiction throughout 'Friends'
© NBCAs reported by The Today Show, Perry had been to rehab 15 times and had had 14 surgeries before his memoir's publication. “The doctors told my family that I had a two percent chance to live. That’s the time I really came close to my life ending,” he said.
When speaking about his experience on "Friends," Perry revealed that there were many years when he was out of the loop throughout the shoot. “I don’t remember three years of it,” he told BBC Radio in 2016. “A little bit of the time, I was a little out of it, yeah,” he added.
His memoir, which received positive reviews upon its release, was written to help others who'd experienced similar struggles or had someone in their lives who struggled with addiction.
“My hope is that people will relate to it and know this disease attacks everybody,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re successful or not, the disease doesn’t care.”
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