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Matthew Perry was spotted by paparazzi in a rare sighting after celebrating his 54th birthday.
Matthew celebrated his birthday last month on August 19 and appears to be in better health, pictured with naturally greying hair and sunglasses, paired with a black shirt as he stepped out to run errands. The former Friends star remains somewhat out of the public eye these days, despite opening up about his personal battles with substance abuse in his best-selling memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.
In his famous memoir, Matthew detailed his experience on set of the hit 10 season long sitcom Friends alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, and Matt LeBlanc from 1994 to 2004. In the juicy memoir, Matthew gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at the dynamics of the cast, including his secret crush on Jennifer who played Rachel Green on the hit series. The famous star also shared the intimate details of his struggle with drug and alcohol addiction during filming of the show.
Matthew was spotted in a rare sighting (BACKGRID)
He recently turned 54 (BACKGRID)During a guest appearance The Chris Evans Breakfast Show in 2016, he admitted that he couldn't remember filming "somewhere between season three and six" of Friends as he battled addictions to Vicodin, methadone, amphetamines, and alcohol. During an interview with ABC News Exclusive, Matthew also revealed why he can't re-watch Friends now.
He told the news outlet: "I was taking 55 Vicodin a day, I weighed 128 lbs, I was on Friends getting watched by 30 million people — and that’s why I can’t watch the show, ‘cause I was brutally thin" he added: "The thing that always makes me cry...is that it’s not fair. It’s not fair that I had to go through this disease while the other five didn’t.“
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Matt struggled with substance abuse while he was filming the show (NBCUniversal via Getty Images)More recently on The View, Matthew told co-host Whoopi Goldberg that he is "doing really well".
During the appearance in November 2022, he said: "I’m doing really well. Things are going great in my life. I wrote a book so that’s why I’m wearing glasses because I’m an author."