Matthew Perry's best friend who helped him through addiction struggles named

10 November 2023 , 23:56

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His assistant 'Erin' mentioned in his memoir has been revealed

Throughout Matthew Perry's memoir, the actor mentioned "Erin," a female personal assistant that he described as the best friend who helped him through addiction withdrawals.

In the 2022 book, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew first addressed Erin as an assistant who shared a room with him in a sober living house. The star gushed about how he "treasured" their relationship and how much she meant to him.

He described her as "a lesbian whose friendship I treasure because it brings me the joy of female companionship without the romantic tension that has seemed to ruin my friendships with straight women (not to mention, we can talk about hot women together)."

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He referred to her as his 'best friend' (Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)

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The name was a pseudonym, and in the wake of Matthew's tragic death, fans were curious as to who this person was that had such an impact on the actor's life. It was previously thought to be his assistant Briana Brancato was "Erin," but according to the Mail Online, her real name is Morgan Moses.

A friend of Morgan confirmed its week that she was Erin, and though Morgan enjoys living a private life, the friend said: "It's important to tell the truth." Others close to the star described her as "an incredible human being." According to her LinkedIn page, Morgan works full-time as a "sober companion" since 2018.

Morgan didn't leave his bedside for five months (Getty Images for GQ)

This might have been in reference to when Matthew "stole" her from her job working at a rehab centre. He wrote in his memoir: "I’d met her two years earlier, at another rehab where she had been working at the time. I didn’t get sober back then, but I saw how wonderful she was in every way and promptly stole her from that sober living rehab and made her my assistant, and she became my best friend."

"She, too, understood the nature of addiction and would come to know my struggles better than any doctor I’d ever seen," he added.

When Matthew went into a coma after his "insides exploded," as he put it, he said Erin didn't leave his side. "“The last thing I’d said to Erin before the coma, as I was spinning on the ground in Pain, right before I lost consciousness, was, ‘Don’t leave me.’ I meant right then and there, but she, like the rest of my friends and family, took it literally. Erin pulled the night shift for five months in that hospital," he recalled.

Tatiana Krisztina