Matthew Perry Back in Rehab...

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Matthew Perry Back in Rehab by Mark Armstrong Feb 26, 2001, 4:15 PM PT

Less than six months after announcing he was through with "hard living," Matthew Perry is back in rehab.

Following the advice of his doctors, the Friends star has been admitted to a rehabilitation hospital, according to a statement released by his publicist. It's still not known exactly why the 31-year-old actor--who has publicly struggled with alcohol and prescription-drug addiction--returned to rehab, or in which hospital he is staying.

"Matthew has every intention of completing his treatment so that he can continue his dream of entertaining people and making them laugh," reads a statement from Perry's publicist, Lisa Kasteler. "He appreciates everyone's concern and thanks them for respecting his privacy."

The word marks yet another troubling setback for the smirking one-sixth of NBC's hit comedy, who recently endured a year's worth of illness and accidents. Last spring, Perry was hospitalized for acute pancreatitis, caused by years of alcohol and drug abuse. Soon after he was released from the hospital last May, Perry crashed his Porsche into the porch of a house in the Hollywood Hills.

No immediate word from NBC, or Friends production company Warner Bros., on how Perry's absence could affect production on the series. But E! Online columnist Ted Casablanca reports that production has already been shut down on Servicing Sara, the comedy costarring Perry and Elizabeth Hurley that had been shooting in Dallas and Los Angeles.

At least publicly, Perry had sought to reassure the public he was working to recover from a rough year. In October, Perry told Us Weekly magazine that his life-in-the-fast-lane days were behind him. "In my case, it was hard living and drinking hard and eating poorly," he told the magazine, regarding his hospitalization for pancreatitis.

In 1997, Perry checked himself into the Hazelden drug treatment center in Minnesota for an addiction to prescription painkillers, but he insisted that "there were no pills involved" in his most recent health problems. "I learned my lesson at Hazelden."

He also emphasized that he was working hard to turn his life around. "My twenties were about work--making enough money so that I could do what I wanted to do--and partying, stuff like that," he said. "I think--I hope--my thirties are going to be more about developing my social skills in a way I haven't done before so that I get married in my thirties and have a child in my thirties."

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Wow...

I sure hope he's getting the help he's looking for.

Matt, I'm rooting for you. Take care of yourself first; your fans will stick by you.

Sue

This is soo sad. Matthew Perry is the coolest guy in any sitcom (in Norway)...

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:32:25 +0100, "Vigleik Sand�y" wrote:

How can someone so "cool" be such an idiot to abuse his body with drugs and drink like he's done. The mans a dork, and deserves everything he gets.

Give him a break! everyone makes mistakes, this was one of his! he got addicted he did something about that, now he's got a eating disorder and he's trying to fix that as well! at least the guys doing something about it

On 04 Mar 2001 08:15:41 GMT, [email] (Seran Perry) wrote:

He's had the biggest break in his life, a secure work career on a top sitcom, $500,000+ per episode, and a budding movie career as a fall back, and how many struggling thespians would love to swap places with him?

Nobody put a gun to his head, and said take these drugs, and drink all that drink.

Weak willed people always do.

Yeah, he kept feeding his face.

Like ramming a tree. :> What if he had killed someone? Leopards dont change their spots, and I predict once he's been 'dried out' it will only be a matter of time before he's in rehab again, ah-well at least it keep the rehab employees, and counsellors, and all the rest of the rehab 'industry' in work.

okay yes in all honesty I would but it can't be easy working on two projects and two different time zones.

and that's why it was a mistake, because no one forced him

it's not to do with will power, it can be easy to get addicted to things even if you do have the wil power

his weight is going up and down actually

Just leave hime alone. if he was so weak willed then why is he going into rehab now? he's trying to get his problem sorted so it doesn't happen again

I think at the end of the day, he has realised he has a problem and doing something about it. He apparently got addicted to pain killers after a skiing accident, medication he was taking for a genuine reason.

There are substances sometimes our body is susceptible to. Take alcohol for instance. Alcoholics are not made because people drink too much, normally people do it out of choice. The difference between a regular drinker and a alcoholic is in the latter the addiction is caused because they have a weakness in their body to alcohol, this causes cravings and then they can't do without it. For instance if they wake up in the morning / throughout the day and say I gotta drink, normally that is symptom and that their body is susceptible to the substance.

This is similarly what I think Mathew Perry is experiencing with pain killers as I understand. The other things are probably just side effects, or his annoyance on his dependency.

He knows he has a problem and is addressing it, lets hope he pulls through. It would be a sad loss otherwise. I wish him luck as I am sure many others do.

Wayne

"Seran Perry" wrote in message news:[email]...

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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:00:35 GMT, "Wayne" wrote:

As do I-even though you lot probably don't belive me. As to you other point, I have addressed them in the previous post.

On 05 Mar 2001 16:50:35 GMT, [email] (Seran Perry) wrote:

He can always quit, if you can't stand the heat...

No, no-one forced him, but like most Hollywood types he thought he was being clever, and when things get out of hand, they expect us to feel sorry for them.

Its everything to do with will power, he started popping pills and excesive drinking, and didn't have the will power to stop. Hollywood is full of people like him...as are the Hollywood cemetries.

Actually wight is dependent on calorie intake and IS dependent on the amount of calories we burn/use up against the amount we ingest, and the content of the food, if we feed our faces with high calorie shit, and don't burn it off we will put on weight.

Why? He is public properety. He owes his living to US the paying public who watch Friends and pay at the box office to see his movies, public scrunity of his life is the price they pay when they live that kind of life.

Because the studio bosses and the people who pay his wages say so, he who pays the piper...

He is a product of Hollywood and acts like it. Hollywood has a long history of what he's been doing.

if he's doing something he loves then why would he quit? He has loyalties as well and you can't break them.

no one forced him, the pain of the accident was too much. and that's why he took the pills. who said he thought he was being clever?

It's easy to depend on them. he took the pills because of an accident, if the pain was too much for him then he would have them. when the pain is gone it makes you think that you can depend on them, but once your body gets used to them, it's hard to give them up. I've learnt all about this in biology so I know what I'm talking about.

yes but his weight is going down too, how do you explain that? was he feeding his face?

This is his private life. That's why people should leave him alone. it does no good to say, 'oh I told you so' when he's already done it, he's learnt his lesson and now he's trying to rectify it. he should have encouragment if you're not going to leave him alone, not critisism.

Okay yes it was on advice of his doctor, but at least he got up the courage to see the doctor about this problem, and at least he's still in rehab and isn't trying to get out.

I urge you to read what Wayne said in the post before this one. Do you think it's only people in hollywood that are susceptible to this problem?

On 11 Mar 2001 17:59:15 GMT, [email] (Seran Perry) wrote:

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Funny how he pays back those loyalties, he he did that in a normal job he'd be sacked.

He could have gone back to his doctor, when he found they were becoming addictive.

I did. Check out the front page and accompaning story of the latest National Enquirer, MP was popping so many types of pill I bet he rattled. As I said he thought he was being clever and he found things getting out of hand, thats why his life is a mess.

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You should also know that when a person find their medication getting on top of them yuou have to inform your doctor, thats what he/she is there for. But back to the point, MP was like a walking pharmacy he was taking so many dam pills, and THAT isn't the sign of a man with his eye on the ball.

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Yes, but on what I ask, he could have been eating a lettice leaf 3 times a day. On top of his pill popping he obviously isn't eating properly, hasn't he or the studio ever heard of a dietitian, they pay enough to their investment to hire one, to get him back top.

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People like him live in a gold fish bowl, with all there faults to the world to see. Stars have no private lives, the reson they have no private lives is their stars and, the lime light exposes them to public scrunitiy, and gossip.

True.

Also true. BUT, how long before it catches up with him again. As I have mentioned above one of the main articles in the latest National Enquirer shows the extent of his 'lesson'.

He's a prabably a pampered star who never gets told stright what a bloody fool he's been. None of the other Friends stars have got themselves into such a mess as Matthew Perry has--with the possible exception to the beautiful Courteny Cox and the rumours of her marrige being in deep trouble throught David constant partying, but thats a differnt topic.

Of course he isn't trying to get out, the bosses probably laid down the law and, told him your staying in there till your much better.

Of course not, but in La La land, the symtoms are so much more exposed as the place is more of a gold fish bolw then anywhere else. God, all a 'star' has to do is scratch there arse or fart in public, and its in the papers next morning.

Christopher wrote:

I don't know if I'd believe everything the National Enquirer says.

Laurie

What I found most interesting is that included in this "list" (and most of the drugs in the accompanying photo) was melatonin, a chemical our own brain creates in order to induce sleep. This can be purchased a any grocery, drug and/or vitamin store. I don't have the article in front of me, but I recall there being a total of four "drugs" in the list that were nothing more than vitamins or natural supplements; likewise with the "picture".

Sheesh...even I, who reads the Enquirer often, can tell when someone's trying to pump up an article. In their mood to bash MP and make him look even worse than he does, I wouldn't be suprised if the next Enquirer headline has him having an affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Sue Buying a piece of Roquefort is a great excuse to open a good wine.

On 18 Mar 2001 03:20:42 GMT, [email] (Sue) wrote:

If the National Enquirer has such untrue storys then why hasn't it been sued to bankrupcy for libel in the land-of-litigation then?

Actually, the National Enquirer has lost several lawsuits by celebrities who have taken the time and trouble to sue. Why isn't it done more often? Maybe because of the expense, the risk of even more media exposure, the time it takes, etc. Lord, major celebrities would be in court all time with all these stories in so many tabloids. And not all Enquirer stories are false but they're completely sensationalized.

Laurie

--- It *has* been sued. Carol Burnett was the first to sue, back in the 80's.

Under American common law, when it pertains to public figures, a publication can claim the defense of Constitutional privilege (i.e., the First Amendment right to free speech), so long as the article was published without "malice." Malice is defined as the publisher's knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard of the truth. The *accuser* must *prove* that the publisher then knew the statement was false and recklessly published it anyway. This is the area where the tabloids get away with pumping up an article, such as the one in this week's issue re Matt Perry, because saying he was on drugs was something he himself had said. How could MP say that the statement was false? That reporting on his drug usage was reckless? He can't. Thus, the Enquirer makes the picture of the drugs found in his hotel room a little more interesting by also including the slew of OTC vitamins in it, and sells a few more issues. And, it puts some old pictures taken of him and Julia Roberts when they dated many years ago and puts in on the cover. Isn't it interesting that she just happens to be the favored winner for Best Actress at the Academy Awards next week?

Thus, there might be a grain of truth in many tabloid articles, but it is up to us to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Sue

Buying a piece of Roquefort is a great excuse to open a good wine.

On 18 Mar 2001 19:39:27 GMT, [email] (Sue) wrote:

Hmm, it seems that in America just like in England the lawyers are the one who always win. :-(

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I really don't want to discuss this issue any further because as far as I'm concerned this is his private life. He's trying to sort out his problems so good luck to him and I wish him all the best to get better. I personally think that we should just butt out of his life and respect his privacy.

On 18 Mar 2001 11:31:41 GMT, [email] (Seran Perry) wrote:

Fine by me. We'll just all have to see if he get better or not.

yup, good luck to him nice argueing with you Christopher

On 18 Mar 2001 18:37:10 GMT, [email] (Seran Perry) wrote:

You to Seran, BTW, just to squear things of before we go our seperate cyber ways, has the American celeb press said/mentioned/reported/rumoured anything at all on Courteney Cox kicking David out through his partying, and refusing to start a family?

She's not American so she couldn't tell ya. ;) There were a couple of tabloid style rumors about it, but it wasn't that I can recall on any major news or entertainment programs. Since then they've been seen together at a couple of movie premiers and things like that, so it looks like the rumor was false.

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As far as I'm aware it's all a rumour. Courtney has not kicked out David and everything seems hunky dorey!

On 19 Mar 2001 16:54:35 GMT, [email] (Seran Perry) wrote:

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Thanks for that. Hmmm, just like the PM question this one will require a wait and see approach.

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Legally, a person cannot be public (or private) property. For copyright and trademark purposes, a person's name, likeness or image can be designated and transferred, but the spirit, soul, private life, etc. cannot. Not even in Hollywood.

Sue Buying a piece of Roquefort is a great excuse to open a good wine.

There you go! Thank you Sue.

Does anyone know if they will be casting the part of Chandler's gay father on the season-ending weding episode. My wife and I think the part should go to either Nathan Lane or Robin Williams...any thoughts or ideas????