What Matthew Perry’s Death Tells Us About Living With Addiction
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5 min readOct 30, 2023
Matthew Perry is almost me. But for the grace of God, as the saying goes.
I didn’t grow up in Canada and star in a mega-zeitgeist TV sitcom in the ’90s; but I grew up in upstate New York (might as well be Canada) and worked in film and TV. He was 54, I’m 48.
