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Watch Nidhi Razdan: A cautionary tale — Matthew Perry’s fight against addiction
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2/17/2025
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This week, I wanted to write about something completely different.
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So I decided to write about one of my favorite actors, Matthew Perry.
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When the Friend star died last year, I think for a lot of us, it felt like we'd actually
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lost a friend.
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For years, he had entertained us as Chandler Bing on the hit show.
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And you know, it just felt like he was right there, right next door, one of us.
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And when he died, I watched a rerun of the entire 10 seasons of Friends just to revisit
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those episodes that I had loved so much.
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Now the news that there were doctors and his own personal assistant who actually exploited
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him and facilitated his death has come as another big shocker.
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Here was a man who was very open about his struggles with addiction, with drugs and alcohol.
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And Matthew Perry was very brave to document this in his book and in interviews over the
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years.
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He hoped that his struggles would help others who were dealing with the same problems.
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But the fact is, it was a struggle that was difficult for him to overcome.
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And instead of helping him, those who he trusted, those who were closest to him, ended up exploiting
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him.
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Most shockingly, doctors who should have known better.
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One hopes that with Perry's death, more people are actually helped by this experience and
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will learn from it because that's all that Perry wanted at the end of the day.
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Thanks for watching.
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Don't forget to like and subscribe.
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See you next time.
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