Friends star Matthew Perry talks alcohol addiction: I didn't know how to stop

Matthew Perry has recounted the days of his alcohol addiction and the several moments when he almost died.

The Friends alum laid bare all secrets of his personal life in his upcoming memoir titled, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, where he detailed his journey to sobriety and everything in between.

Speaking to People magazine for the weekly cover story, Perry told that his main objective in sharing his past is to help people relate to it and believe that they can get out of it.

The 53-year-old actor shared that his alcohol addiction was just starting to surface when he was cast on Friends at age 24. "I could handle it, kind of. But by the time I was 34, I was really entrenched in a lot of trouble," he admitted. "But there were years that I was sober during that time. Season 9 was the year that I was sober the whole way through. And guess which season I got nominated for best actor? I was like, 'That should tell me something.'"

However, he recalled that his addiction led him to lose 128 pounds and got so bad that he could go to jail if that meant he could keep drinking.

He reassured that he is “pretty healthy now.”

The journey, though incredibly dark at times, has made Perry stronger "in every way," he insisted. "What I'm most surprised with is my resilience. The way that I can bounce back from all of this torture and awfulness. Wanting to tell the story, even though it's a little scary to tell all your secrets in a book, I didn't leave anything out. Everything's in there."