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Matthew Perry is talking extensively about his brief relationship with Julia Roberts. In his eagerly anticipated memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, the Friends actor not only described how he persuaded the Oscar winner to make a cameo appearance on the venerable sitcom, but he also revealed the real reason he broke up with Roberts after only two months of dating.

Reasons Behind the Break-up

The 53-year-old actor was candid about how his own mental instability caused their relationship to end after just two months in his new memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.”

The “Friends” actor states that he and the 54-year-old actress had started dating by the time Roberts made a surprise appearance on an episode of the well-known comedy. However, things swiftly went south.

According to a passage from Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing obtained by The Times and Entertainment Weekly, Matthew Perry and Julia Roberts parted ways for the following reasons:

“Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me. Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unloveable.”

“So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts. She might have considered herself slumming it with a TV guy, and the TV guy was now breaking up with her. I can’t begin to describe the look of confusion on her face.” said Perry and that he believed the “Pretty Woman” star was “slumming it” by dating him in an excerpt that was published by the Times UK.

Relationship leading to Cameo in Friends

The brief affair developed as a result of Roberts’ declaration that she would “only do the show” if she could participate in Perry’s character’s plot. Roberts later wed Danny Moder.

Also, he disclosed Julia Roberts’ guest appearance in Friends Season 2. Episode 13 titled The One After the Superbowl, Part 2 was secured by Matthew Perry.

Perry reiterated Julia’s demand and joked, “Was I having a good year or what?” but also added, “But first, I had to woo her.”

In an effort to win Julia Roberts over, Matthew Perry who portrayed Chandler Bing on the popular program sent her over three dozen roses. Along with a paper on quantum physics drawing inspiration from Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman:

 “The only thing more exciting than the prospect of you doing the show is that I finally have an excuse to send you flowers.”

Julia was not easy to convince! “Her reply was that if I adequately explained quantum physics to her, she’d agree to be on the show”

“The following day, I sent her a paper all about wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle and entanglement, and only some of it was metaphorical,” Matthew Perry recalled before adding, “Not only did Julia agree to do the show, but she also sent me a gift: bagels — lots and lots of bagels. … I did let her in, both figuratively and literally, and a relationship began.”

On the other side, Alexa Junge, a staff writer for Friends, recalled the notes with affection: “There was a lot of flirting over faxing. She was giving him these questionnaires. Like, ‘Why should I go out with you?’ And everyone in the writers’ room helped him explain to her why. He could do pretty well without us, but there was no question we were on Team Matthew and trying to make it happen for him.”

Dru Addiction

While appearing on one of the most-watched TV shows and dating the crème de la crème of Hollywood, Perry was nevertheless also battling drug and alcohol addiction.

The actor, who played the title role in the comedy from 1994 to 2004, had to enter rehab twice during the show’s ten-year run.

Including after filming the iconic moment in which his character wed Monica Geller, a character played by Courteney Cox.

Perry spoke with the New York Times on Sunday following the Season 7 finale shoot;

he was “driven back to the treatment center… in a pickup truck helmed by a sober technician.”

“[I was] at the height of my highest point in ‘Friends,’ the highest point in my career, the iconic moment on the iconic show,” he continued, saying that his “exhausting” opiate addiction made it impossible for him to enjoy his role on the NBC sitcom.

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Both his financial condition and his career were negatively impacted by his addiction. He told the publication about his long battle, which started when he was just 14 years old:

“I’ve probably spent $9 million or something trying to be sober.”

The actor was using “55 Vicodin a day,” along with “Methadone, Xanax,”. At the height of his addiction, he also consumed “a full quart of vodka.”

Also, Actor “nearly died” a few years ago when his colon burst. He was given a “2%” chance of survival by doctors because of his heavy drug use.

The actor’s near-death experience has kept him clean for the last 18 months. Also due to the necessity to wear a colostomy bag for nine months.

He told People magazine on Thursday, “The next time you think about taking OxyContin, just think about having a colostomy bag for the rest of your life.” I slid through a small window that then opened, saying, “I no longer want OxyContin.”

 

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Julia Roberts’ character in FRIENDS

Julia Roberts appeared on Friends in The One After the Superbowl, Part 2 of Season 2 Episode 13.

Roberts played Susie Moss, Chandler Bing’s (Matthew Perry) elementary school classmate, in the funny episode. The stunning couple ignites a passionate affair after reuniting decades later.

But on their date night, Moss steals all of Chandler’s clothes! Including his underwear—as retaliation for embarrassing her in fourth grade, revealing Susie’s true motivations.

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Friends creators have long been criticized for their absence in variety. The 65-year-old Marta Kauffman at first battled to handle all the troublesome and frustrating reactions of her TV series. She then decided to accept the successful show was being singled out, she told the Los Angeles Times.

However, almost twenty years after the show wrapped, Kauffman started to see the mistake of her methodologies. The television writer says,

“I’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years,” Kauffman said in an interview. “Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago.” 

The well-known show, which ran from 1994 to 2004, highlights a gathering of six white, heterosexual friends living in Greenwich Village. The village was a broadly gay area, in New York, a historically diverse city.

All the 10 years of the show, the comedy show continued to whitewash New York City. The show rarely featured a variety of people. Friends just presented two repeating characters of variety, both of whom were welcomed on as brief love interests for Ross.

Alongside a huge number of different Americans, in 2020 the George Floyd murder pushed Kaufmann to deal with the country’s past and her own part in propagating a system of racism.

She explained that “I knew then I needed to course-correct,”. While trying to redeem herself, Kauffman vowed $4 million to her place of graduation, Brandeis University, to support a supplied seat in the school’s African and African American examinations division, one of the most established in the country.

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The Waltham, Massachusetts-based university announced,

”The Marta F. Kauffman ’78 Professorship in African and African American Studies will support a distinguished scholar with a concentration in the study of the peoples and cultures of Africa and the African diaspora” and “assist the department to recruit more expert scholars and teachers, map long-term academic and research priorities and provide new opportunities for students to engage in interdisciplinary scholarship,”

“It took me a long time to begin to understand how I internalized systemic racism,” Kauffman told. “I’ve been working really hard to become an ally, an anti-racist. And this seemed to me to be a way that I could participate in the conversation from a white woman’s perspective.” 

It was just last year that friends Reunion aired in honor of the iconic sitcom show. The beloved characters and the die-hard fans of the show recalled the discussion on the lack of diversity. However, Kauffman didn’t feel that it was appropriate to bring that up on the show.

She told that she didn’t even understand how those two incidents were related. It was not necessary to address that incident or anything that we did wrong in the context of a reunion. Kauffman has been revealing certain aspects that she regrets from the show.

She says that there are probably a hundred things that could have been different. She further clarified that it was not a conscious decision to choose the white cast.

 

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However, the co-creator Kevin Bright count down on his decisions for hiring the characters of the friends.

He noted the chemistry between the characters,  Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Matthew Perry.

He told the reporter, “I would have been insane not to hire those six actors. What can I say? I wish Lisa was black?”

Kaufmann says she received nothing but love after her $4M pledge. In this case, she is actually putting her money where her mouth is and expecting to make some difference in future conversations.

Furthermore, she said,

“I have to say, after agreeing to this and when I stopped sweating, it didn’t unburden me, but it lifted me up. But until in my next production, I can do it right, it isn’t over. I want to make sure from now on in every production I do that I am conscious of hiring people of color and actively pursuing young writers of color. I want to know if I will act differently from now on. And then I will feel unburdened.”

The incident didn’t unburden her but it actually lifted her. She is expecting that in her next production hopefully, she can make everything right and also be conscious of hiring of all colors and give opportunities to young talents of all races and colors.

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