and i knew it. >> reporter: lisa kudrow says matthew perry was always the one trying to keep everyonee happy. >> lisa is the funniest, maybe the funniest person i've ever worked with. >> reporter: and jennifer aniston? they had met years earlier. perry asked her out on a date, she said no, let's be friends. you had one of your serial crushes, if i may say. >> yeah. >> you really kind of chain-crushed? >> i did. obviously i have a crush on jenny and courtny and lisa. it made it kind of difficult to go to work because i had to pretend that i didn't have these. >> reporter: it is the year 2000. he's the star of the number one sitcom on tv. >> it's the time i should have been the toast of the town. i was in a dark room, meeting with nothing but drug dealers, and completely alone. for months. >> reporter: the spiral into prescription drugs has begun. he has a memory of the first pill as indelible as the first teenage drink long ago. he was making a movie called "fools rush in." during a lunch break, he was playing around on a jet ski. has an injury. he's given a pill for the pain and says

the struggle was already starting even back then for friends co star matthew perry perry is now openingup about his battle. he's kept secret from his fans for decades . until now, here's a b cs lionel movies. this morning, matthew perry is giving fans a candid look into his lifelong struggle with alcohol and drug addiction. speaking to diane sawyer, days before the release of his memoir, friends, lovers and the big, terrible thing, 6000 a meetings therapy, 30 years, 15. rehabs maybe at least a addiction. the big, terrible thing is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. but together one day at a time. we can beat it down. i believe that's true. your disease is just outside. just doing one armed pushups just waiting just waiting for you waiting to get you alone. because alone, you lose. to the disease. and now i finally feel okay and feel like i've got some strength starsays he's been sober for 18 months, telling the new york times he believes he's probably spent $9 million or something trying to get their rolling stone publishing excerpts from his memoir, revealing that at one poin

hearing new details this morning from diane sawyer's exclusive interview with friends co star matthew perry. perry is opening up about his struggles with drugs and alcohol in his new memoir, friends, lovers and the big, terrible thing, but this morning, we're getting a clearer picture of just how big that terrible thing really was for perry. friends lovers and the big, terrible things. you start with a thunderclap. first page. hi my name is matthew. although you may know me by another name , my friends call me maddy and i should be dead. yeah. that's definitely true. he has been in detox, he estimates 65 times survived 14 surgeries after a nearly fatal emergency three years ago. they ran me into they emergency trauma room. and it was in there that my colon exploded. i was put on an act more machine. and that machine when you talk to any doctor it is. a hail mary is the last thing that you do before people die. and there were five people that night they were put on ecmo machine and i was the only one who survived. he was in a coma for 14 days. as he heals from all he's been through there sti

ask your doctor about dupixent. >>> before we go, more of diane sawyer with actor matthew perry. ing his struggle with addiction, hoping his honesty, his truth, will help others fight it, too. >> i want to just do it by the numbers. 6,000 aa meetings. therapy, 30 years. 15 rehabs. >> yeah. >> maybe at least. half of your life in treatment? or in sober living houses. he has been in detox, he estimates, 65 times. survived 14 surgeries after a nearly fatal emergency three years ago. >> they ran me into the emergency trauma room and it was in there that my colon exploded. i was put on an ecmo machine. and ecmo machine, when you talk to any doctor, is a hail mary. it is the last thing that you do before people die. and there were five people that night that were put on ecmo machine and i was the only one who survived. >> perry says he's proof that addiction can enter any home, any heart. even after landing a starring role in a show that was then called "friends like us." >> okay, who wants light cheese and who wants dark cheese? >> by the year 2000, the spiral into prescription drugs h

. >>> and diane sawyer with "friends" star matthew perry. the exclusive interview on addiction, the struggle, and why you cannot do it alone. what he wants everyone to know. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. we are monitoring reports of that earthquake late today rattling the san francisco bay area. the largest earthquake to hit in nearly a decade. what scientists are warning tonight. >>> but we do begin here with the discovery after that deadly school shooting that left a student and teacher dead. authorities say the 19-year-old who just graduated, another young man with an ar-15-style rifle. the images of the teenagers running for their lives. their hands up in st. louis. police now say the 19-year-old, who graduated last year, had more than 600 rounds of ammunition. and tonight, the handwritten note he left behind. we are not going to report on its entirety, but the sheriff tonight on the line that was not only disturbing, but a wakeup call yet again. abc's alex perez leading us off in

actor matthew perry is revealing new details about his struggle with addiction, he says. it forced him to leave a dream role alongside meryl streep, and he says his heart once stopped for five minutes. abc is lionel moise has more this morning, matthew perry is giving fans a candid look into his lifelong struggle with alcohol and drug addiction. speaking to diane sawyer days before the release of his memoir , friends, lovers and the big, terrible thing, 6000 a meetings therapy, 30 years 15 rehabs, maybe at least you say, addiction. the big, terrible thing is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. but together one day at a time. we can beat it down. i believe that's true diseases just outside just in one arm pushups just waiting just waiting for you to get you alone. because alone. you lose, and now i finally feel okay and feel like i've got some strength. the front star says he's been sober for 18 months, telling the new york times he believes he's probably spent $9 million or something trying to get their rolling stone publishing excerpts from his memoir, revealing

i'm glad you read it. >> matthew perry, take one. >> reporter: "friends, lovers and the big terrible age. hi, my name is matthew although you may know by another name. my friends call me matty and i should be dead. >> yes, that's definitely true. >> you say addiction, the big terrible thing is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone but together one day at a time we can beat it down. >> yeah. your disease is outside just doing one-arm push-ups waiting for you, waiting to get you alone because alone, you lose to the disease and now i finally feel okay and feel like i've got some strength. >> what does it mean to feel okay? >> it means that i've developed some safety nets around this, you know. for some reason it's obviously because i was on "friends" more people will listen to me. so i've got to take advantage of that. i've got to help as many people as i can. >> reporter: we've all learned it's not ours to ask someone in recovery how long they've been sober. that's a personal road, but he says it's why he's written the harrowing details of his journey through alcohol, all those dr

how is matthew perry still alive.entanyl from prince to heath ledger and this bows 0 is pumping 60 pills a day and is still walking among us. shouldn't he be dead? . >> tyrus: sure, sure >> greg: thank you. we'll be right back. >> tyrus: no, first of all this is what happens when you don't write your book, okay. he said [bleep] a lot. his ghost writer was writing this stuff. >> greg: it was recorded. >> tyrus: was recording this stuff and when they said go through your book you wrote for you and have anything taken out and he went, yeah, i did it, here, send it. no. and i'm sure this is about a woman so it's keanu reeves, no one's wife is safe. he starts doing the hey, what's going on thing and he was sitting there going, jennifer, don't look at him. stop. he's obviously a jilted lover. and again if you're going to have a ghost writer, not my thing but i got you, you might want to proof read once or twice. because he said that, he meant that, this ghost writer was like i'm only getting five grand for this so he probab

. >>> and diane sawyer and her interview with former "friends" star matthew perry. tonight, what you didn't see here. perry describing at one point during "friends" being on 55 vicodin a diay. and he reveals what he would do on sundays. visiting open houses to look in medicine cabinets. and why he's telling his story now. >>> good evening and thank you for joining us here on a thursday night. we begin tonight with that frightening scene unfolding in new york city. a city bus hijacked during the commute. what the bus driver does to save as many as 25 passengers before jumping out of the window himself. the bus then crashing. police say the suspect sat just behind the driver, ordering him to drive. that driver first opening all of the doors to get the passengers off. a surveillance camera capturing the bus as it travels more than a mile. only the driver and the hijacker inside. the driver then jumping out of that window. the bus slamming into a utility pole. people nearby hearing the crash when the bus finally comes to a halt. the suspect taken into custody. and tonig

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matthew perry and diane sawyer one-on-one. the "friends" star who always made us laugh. >> i'm not great at the advice. can i interest you in a sarcastic comment? >> but what was really going on during the "friends" phenomenon. this morning, pulling back the curtain on his isolating addiction battle. the moment one of his friends reached out. >> and she says, we know you're drinking. >> yeah, imagine how scary of a moment that was. >> and the scene that's still hard for him to watch. >> i'm so grateful to not be that anymore. >> now his hope to help others. what he tells them when someone calls him for help and how he'll know if he needs help once again. >>> all you can fly? how frontier is shaking up the airline industry with its new unlimited pass. ♪ we are family ♪ >>> and we're celebrating homecoming at florida a&m university with famu and the incomparable marching 100 band. t.j. is live in tallahassee as their school spirit sends us into the weekend. >>> good morning, america. this is a great jam. gets you going. george c

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larry: tonight, primetime, 8:00, matthew perry with diane sawyer interview followed by 20/20, and dot miss abc 7 news at 11:00. matthew perry really open up about his new memoir, "friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing." >> you can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season. when i'm carrying wait, it's alcohol. when i'm skinny, it is pills. >> he writes about the scenes that remind him how he was just barely holding on. he needed the pills to function, but the pills destroy appetite and cause deep nausea. i asked him if it was ok for us to look at one of those scenes together. >> sure. >> a scene in which he is painfully thin, shirt hanging off his body. >> i know that hat. i was taken aboard that hat. they did experiments on me. i cannot have children. of course, it is very hard to watch that. because i feel so sorry for that guy. that's a guy that is out of control. i did not know what was going on with me. i weighed 155 pounds, on my way to 128 pounds. i felt too sorry for that guy. he's going through too much, and it's me, and i rememb

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matthew perry will be live on "gma" monday. you can stream diane's full interview on hulu.e'll see you right back here monday. thankses for staying up with us. good night, america. have a great weekend. i see it in my office all the time. kids getting hooked on flavored tobacco, including e-cigarettes. big tobacco lures them in with flavors like lemon drop and bubble gum, candy flavors that get them addicted to tobacco products, and can lead to serious health consequences, even harming their brain development. that's why pediatricians urge you to vote yes on prop 31. it stops the sale of dangerous flavored tobacco and helps protect kids from nicotine addiction. please vote yes on 31. vote yes on prop 31. announcer: building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc7 news. >> their families don't sign up for this. to be harmed. and it is wrong. and everybody should be disgusted about what happened this morning. dan: paul pelosi, husband of house speaker nancy pelosi, attacked with a hammer at their san francisco home. the suspect allegedly yelling "wh

we've got this abc news exclusive with friends star matthew perry.t down with diane sawyer, talking about his battle with addiction, near-death experience and how him talking about this could help somebody else. the halloween pumpkin hacks that have been seen by millions on tiktok. we will put them to the test live. last week i stepped in a bear trap. i should really get rid of it. but... i'll make do. just like i make do without home internet. besides, my phone gets the job done. sometimes. it's not that bad. it is that bad. don't settle. get xfinity home internet for just $24.99 a month for 2 years with no annual contract and a free streaming box. i see it in my office all the time. kids getting hooked on flavored tobacco, including e-cigarettes. big tobacco lures them in with flavors like lemon drop and bubble gum, candy flavors that get them addicted to tobacco products, and can lead to serious health consequences, even harming their brain development. that's why pediatricians urge you to vote yes on prop 31. it stops the sale of dangerous flavor

karina: coming up tonight, it is matthew perry, the diane sawyer interview, followed by "20/20" at 9:d don't miss abc 7 news at 11:00. and our latest abc 7 special, you don't want to miss it. it highlights some of the spookiest spots, including, of course, alcatraz island. just open up the abc 7 bay area streaming tv app and go to the new and popular rogue to stream it now. dan: finally, a few thoughts about what really matters. we wish all the best and full and speedy recovery for paul pelosi after that despicable attack at his san francisco home. the assailant reportedly yelling "where's nancy?" during the attack, apparently looking for paul's wife, the speaker of the house. the speaker was in washington with her security detail when it happened. we are still learning more about the accused attacker, his ground, his mental state, but his actions undoubtedly fueled by the violent and incendiary rhetoric that has divided the country and dominated social media and the cable news talk shows in recent years. the january 6 insurrection at the capitol is the product of the current politica

also, diane sawyer with an exclusive interview with matthew perry.alking about at -- his addiction battle, and his friends who reached out. were talking about homecoming. florida a&m university. talking how the family does a right. that and so much more, coming up on gma. >> guess what? our very own kumasi is there. as an alum. >> she is. >> guess what else? >> i can't wait to follow her social media adventures did she is already on there. quincy you don't have to go on social media, she will be on gma tomorrow. >> ok. yes. i'll just look on the tv. >> shall be there. i'll be covering it. i'm super excited. >> good for them. >> that energy of those college games. it is a lot. next go ahead. >> you have all the energy. also, i think we collectively feel the same way about the sink. we can hear it in the tone. >> the sink. >> the sink. it was a dad joke. i didn't see coming. it was a really elaborate data joke. >> is like, it's great demonstration speech. you know russian mark he really get literal red with what you are going to bring in, or, you bring

friends star matthew perry says that he was supposed to start in "don't look up," but had to leave because of a medical scare. he says his heart stopped for five minutes in 2019 during surgery. said he was cast as a republican journalist and filmed a scene with jonah hill but after his health scare he didn't return to set and stayed at a rehab center in switzerland. said it was due to a mixture of opioids in his system. he is opening up about his addictions and struggles in his memoir, sitting down for an interview this friday with diane sawyer for an interview. kumasi: more bragging rights for san francisco, national geographic added it to the best of the world list. one of the 25 must travel destinations on the list for two thousand 23. san francisco is picked as an educational journey for all generations. trinidad, tobago, switzerland all in the category. you can see the full list on our website. or you can watch more about the net geo-best in the world right after abc seven mornings. disney is of course the parent company of abc 7 as well as national geographic. traveling in pennsylvan

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. >>> that smile, >>> that smile, matthew perry. >> diane sawyer.ple like me. >> you were on methadone, xanax, full quart of vodka a day. >> uh-huh. >> you said there were six friends, one of them was sick. >> yeah. >> announcer: the diane sawyer interview. >> it was important to me to do something that would help people. >> announcer: friday night at 8:00, 7:00 central on abc. ♪ you shook me all night long ♪ >>> back on "gma," and this morning with chris connelly we're going back in black with the frontman of the legendary hard rock band, ac/dc, brian johnson has written a new memoir, "the lives of brian," and, chris, you had a chance -- i saw you doing a little air guitar. >> i did a little air guitar, but, you know. >> yeah, baby. >> only so much you can do there, robin. with a cap, a grin and rock star roar, singer brian johnson's voice has powered ac/dc and its louder, loudest hit since 1980. you know the songs but you might not know his story. his new memoir looks to change all that so at his florida home we talked about his miraculous rise an

katy perry, matthew mcconaughey, chris hemsworth.ada home. >> moved to california many years ago to pursue acting and i've only made a couple movies the entire time i was there. to be able to give my kids a better life and follow them pursue their dreams, my daughter is an equestrian, my son is the best voltaire, my youngest son is a golf player. this made more sense. >> emily: give my kids a better life. >> pete: higher education has a cartel. same thing with hollywood. if you had to go there in order to pursue his bay change. you can create content from anywhere. you can choose your quality of life and where you want to be paired with what democrats and gavin newsom have done to california, why would you want to be there if you don't have to. other smug, self-important people. move or you want to be for quality-of-life and create content. we live in a whole new world. >> emily: you policies, economic policies have a real economic impact. there's a reason why these guys are moving outside of las vegas where the attraction of the pol

"friends" star matthew perry speaking out and getting-candid. what he is revealing for the first time about his decades long struggle with addiction and what's giving him hope now. >>> and moving on. >> a drive to right center field. back near the wall. and gone! >> the yankees finish off the guardians to advance in baseball's postseason. and in the national league -- >> a breaking ball, he was ready. how far does this go? >> the phillies defeat the padres to move a game closer to the world series. today wednesday, october 19, 2022. ♪♪ >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everybody. 7:00 a.m. on the west coast. glad you started your day with us. >> we are. a lot of yankees fans are happy. a lot of padres fans. we'll have more to come. and something you probably noticed. gas prices are creeping up again. higher from a month ago. and even higher in california. >> it's a busy travel season. and tom costello is going to break down the new effort to red