It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for, the Friends Reunion has finally landed on Sky and streaming service NOW.
The six main stars – Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry – will be back together on screen.
The cast members are reportedly getting paid between £1.7million and £2.1million for the reunion special, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
They were paid millions during the 10 series of Friends, and have been earning millions every year since.
Here we take a closer look at Matthew Perry’s net worth, and what he has been up to since Friends ended 17 years ago.
Matthew Perry net worth
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Matthew Perry is estimated to have a net worth of £85million, according to wealth website Celebrity Net Worth.
Perry played happy-go-lucky character Chandler Bing in the hit sitcom, starring in all 236 episodes between 1994 and 2004.
Like the rest of the cast, Perry was paid £15,922 per episode for the first season of Friends.
That figure rose until the last season, when he was paid a staggering £708,000 per episode.
According to USA Today, each main actor in Friends also makes around £13-14million a year from royalties.
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But Friends isn’t the only thing that has brought in money for Perry.
During his time on the sitcom, he also acted in several films, including Three To Tango, Almost Heroes and Fools Rush In.
After Friends ended, in 2006, he starred in The Ron Clark Story, which he was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe for.
He has also starred in several other films, such as 17 Again alongside Zac Efron.
Since then he has mostly starred in TV series, such as Mr Sunshine, The Good Wife and The Odd Couple.
Perry also had a very public battle with drugs and alcohol through his career.
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In 1997 after a he had a jet-ski accident which left him addicted to painkillers.
He spent 28 days at the Hazelden Betty Ford facility in Minnesota, but didn’t stay sober for long.
In May 2000 he was admitted to a medical centre for alcohol-induced pancreatitis, or inflammation of the pancreas.
He later said it wasn’t “enough to get me to quit drinking”, and crashed his Porsche into a house the day he was released from hospital.
In February 2001 something shifted, and he said he decided to call his parents for help.
He told New York Times: “I didn’t get sober because I felt like it. I got sober because I was worried I was going to die the next day.”
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Perry checked into another rehab centre, and after two-and-a-half months he re-emerged to carry on filming Friends.
In 2011 he went back into rehab as part of his continuing recovery.
In 2013 he opened the Perry House in Malibu as a sober-living facility for men, which he sold in 2015.
He channeled his experiences into a stage play he wrote called The End of Longing, which debuted in London in 2016.
Perry is still plagued by health problems, and he told People: “You don’t recover from what I went through overnight. It’s a day-to-day process.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
