4. Perry’s Drinking
One aspect of Matthew Perry which did not show up on the set of Friends was the drinking habit he developed in the background. Climbing from the life of a starving artist to the million-dollar-per-episode one, Perry lost himself in the money and fame. “I was on Friends from age 24 to 34. I was in the white-hot flame of fame. The six of us were just everywhere all the time,” Perry told People in 2013. “From an outsider’s perspective, it would seem like I had it all. It was actually a very lonely time for me because I was suffering from alcoholism.”