Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

by Matthew Perry

You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season—when I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee, it’s lots of pills.

I try not to dwell on this too much—if you spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror, you will crash your car.