George Clooney Calls Matthew Perry Not Happy When Friends Series Succeeded
JAKARTA - George Clooney said Matthew Perry was not happy even though he was successful with the series he starred in, Friends. The actor tells of his friendship with Perry which has been going on for a long time.Clooney and Perry acted through ER and Friends series several years ago. He said Friends' success didn't bring him the happiness he wanted.“ I've known Matt (Matthew Perry) since he was 16 years old. We usually play tennis together. He's 10 years younger than me and he's a very funny, funny, funny boy, ” George Clooney told Deadline.Clooney revealed that Matthew Perry wanted to act in a television series when he was a child. His wish was realized through the Friends series.“ Everything he told us, meaning me, Richard Kind and Grant Heslow is that I want to play the sitcom. I want to enter the regular sitcom and I will be the happiest man in the world, ” he said repeating Perry's words.
Even though Perry got that through Friends, Clooney said he was still not as happy as he wanted. In 1994, the ER series played by Clooney and Friends with Perry were shooting in side by side.Clooney even became a guest star in one episode of the Friends series to support Matthew Perry."And looking at that, when we were at the Warner Brothers, we were side by side and it was difficult to watch it because we didn't know what was going on with him," said George Clooney.“We know he's not happy and I don't know he did that, 12 Vicodin a day and all that painful thing. It also tells you that success and money and things don't automatically bring you happiness. You have to be happy with yourself and your life,” he said.Matthew Perry was declared to have left due to a contaminant effect based on an autopsy report from Los Angeles. The contaminant is part of the methamphetamine infusion therapy he did before drowning in the bath tub of his house.