Matthew Perry said he is looking for love after beating his demons – but gold diggers need not apply.
The actor – who played Chandler Bing in Friends – is now sober after conquering booze and opioid addictions that left him on the brink of death.
And he blamed a string of failed relationships on him being scared of love.
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Asked for his perfect partner, he said: “Somebody who’s self-supporting. In every way, but monetarily especially because I got burned a few times by women who wanted my money, not really caring about me.”
But the 53-year-old said he is now ready to settle down and start a family.
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He added: “I’m going to learn as I go. I’m not afraid of love any more. The next person I really take seriously is somebody that I’m going to be in love with and not be scared by the things that used to scare me.’’
We previously revealed how Matt was in a coma for two weeks and had to use a colostomy bag for nine months, right.
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He has now spoken out for the first time in his new book Friends, Loves and the Big Terrible Thing, which is out next month.
The actor is also set to get candid about his three-decade addiction struggles.
Perry’s addiction was with him during Friends, but he says his castmates provided a beacon of hope for him during his dark times.
“They were understanding, and they were patient. It could be said that (doing the show) saved me,” he told People magazine in advance of the book’s release.
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Perry was 24 when he landed the role of Chandler, a part he would play for the duration of the hit show’s decade-long run that ended in 2004.
When he got the part, his alcohol addiction was just starting, but it was only the beginning of his troubles.
“If you gauge my weight from season to season — when I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I am skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee, it’s lots of pills,” he writes in his book, which comes out Nov. 1.
He also revealed that he initially had a handle on his addiction.
“I could handle it, kind of, but by the time I was 34, I was really entrenched in a lot of trouble,” he said, while noting he reached a point where he doctors told his family that he had a two percent chance to live.
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