Inside Matthew Perry's Relationship With Matt LeBlanc
That friendship endured Perry’s well-publicized struggles with addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs. Perry had been upfront and honest about his challenges and his time in rehab in the years since “Friends” initially aired. Meeting up with the old gang, however, was enough to bring the connection surging back instantly, Perry said.
“After the show was over at a party or any kind of social gathering, if one of us bumped into each other, that was it, that was the end of the night. You just sat with the person all night long,” Perry explained during the “Friends” reunion special in 2021, Today reported. “You apologized to the people you were with, but they had to understand you had met somebody special to you and you were going to talk to that person for the rest of the night.”
While many of those moments may have been impromptu, the “Friends” cast has also made sure to support each other’s acting long after the show finished airing. In May 2016, when Perry’s playwriting debut, “The End of Longing,” landed on stage, LeBlanc was sure to attend. “Went to see The End [of] Longing last night and ran into this dude,” LeBlanc wrote on Instagram, along with a photo of him with Perry. “He and the cast were great. Way to go bro.”
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