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00:00This week, I wanted to write about something completely different.

00:07So I decided to write about one of my favorite actors, Matthew Perry.

00:11When the Friend star died last year, I think for a lot of us, it felt like we'd actually

00:15lost a friend.

00:16For years, he had entertained us as Chandler Bing on the hit show.

00:21And you know, it just felt like he was right there, right next door, one of us.

00:26And when he died, I watched a rerun of the entire 10 seasons of Friends just to revisit

00:31those episodes that I had loved so much.

00:34Now the news that there were doctors and his own personal assistant who actually exploited

00:40him and facilitated his death has come as another big shocker.

00:44Here was a man who was very open about his struggles with addiction, with drugs and alcohol.

00:49And Matthew Perry was very brave to document this in his book and in interviews over the

00:53years.

00:54He hoped that his struggles would help others who were dealing with the same problems.

00:58But the fact is, it was a struggle that was difficult for him to overcome.

01:02And instead of helping him, those who he trusted, those who were closest to him, ended up exploiting

01:07him.

01:08Most shockingly, doctors who should have known better.

01:12One hopes that with Perry's death, more people are actually helped by this experience and

01:17will learn from it because that's all that Perry wanted at the end of the day.

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