Matthew Perry is best known for his role as Chandler Bing on the beloved sitcom 'Friends' – but he nearly missed out on that gig of a lifetime.
Millions of people across the globe recognize Matthew Perry's face thanks to his career-defining portrayal of Chandler Bing on 'Friends,' but the role nearly went to someone else. Perry, who died at his Los Angeles home last weekend at the age of 54 of unknown causes, detailed the story in his 2022 memoir, 'Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.' As he described, he was attached to another show at the time and was originally unable to audition for 'Friends.
Claiming that the job 'saved my life,' Perry wrote, 'I don’t know what would have happened to me had the call gone the other way. It is not out of the realms of possibility that I may have ended up on the streets of downtown LA shooting heroin in my arm until my untimely death.
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