AAlcohol and drug addiction
Perry became addicted to Vicodin after a jet-ski accident in 1997, and completed a 28-day rehab program later that year.[54] His weight fluctuated drastically over the next few years and once dropped to 145 pounds (66 kg). He lost 20 pounds (9.1 kg) in 2000 due to pancreatitis.[55]
He again entered rehab in February 2001 for addiction to Vicodin, methadone, amphetamines, and alcohol.[56][57]
He was filming Serving Sara in Texas when he suffered severe stomach pains, and flew to Los Angeles to check into Marina del Rey's Daniel Freeman Hospital. Perry's publicist, Lisa Kasteler, confirmed his rehab stay. He says he has spent around $9 million to get sober.[58]
He has revealed that due to his addiction issues, he does not remember three years of the time he was acting on Friends, "somewhere between season three and six."[59]
In 2011, as a celebrity spokesperson for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, Perry went to Capitol Hill to lobby members of Congress in support of funding for drug courts.[60]
Perry received a Champion of Recovery award in May 2013 from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy for opening Perry House, a sober living home situated in his former mansion in Malibu, California.[61][62]
Perry later sold the home and shuttered the rehab center in 2015.[63] Perry has been completely sober since May 2021.[64]
It is believed by sources that the actor had guests over in the evening and assured them he was ok to be left in his apartments jacuzzi, however, authorities found him unresponsive the following morning.