Even a multi-millionaire TV star can't hold off the effects of aging.
And Friends star Matthew Perry, 53, can no longer hide a growing bald spot under his unruly mane.
His growing hairless patch was on full display as he tooled around Los Angeles in his $145,000 Aston Martin sports car.
He looked disheveled as he smoked a cigarette on his way to an exercise session.
Perry was on his way to his tennis club for a game of pickleball when he was seen.
Matthew Perry appeared disheveled as he drove around LA just months after revealing just how bad his addictions to drugs and alcohol had been at the height of his fame
The effects of age are catching up on 53-year-old Perry as he sported a noticeable bald spot as he drove around Los Angeles
He has been winding down at his home in Hidden Hills, California after wrapping up his book tour for his memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing that came out in November.
In the book, Perry, who made it big as the sarcastic and witty Chandler Bing laid bare the height of his terrible drug and alcohol addiction battle that nearly cost him his life.
He said he was given just a two per cent chance of survival after an opioid addiction caused his colon to burst when he was aged 49, leaving him in a coma for two weeks and spending months in hospital – a fact previously unknown to his legions of fans.
Now sober, he detailed his decades-long battle to rid himself of the disease of addiction in his book.
After suffering from a gastrointestinal perforation from opioid addiction, Matthew said he had to use a colostomy bag for nine months, has had 14 surgeries on his stomach in total and been to rehab 15 times in a bid to get clean.
When he was first admitted to the hospital, he said: 'The doctors told my family that I had a two percent chance to live.
'I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. And that's called a Hail Mary. No one survives that.'
He told People he had written the book because he 'wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again.
'I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober — and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction — to write it all down. And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people.'
Perry, who like the rest of the cast earned $1 million an episode in the final few years Friends aired, revealed that his alcoholism was beginning to reveal itself at the time his role catapulted him to instant fame aged just 25.
Perry puffed on a cigarette as he drove his $145,000 Aston Martin to an exercise session – pickleball at his tennis club
Perry wrote in his memoir that he had times of sobriety – including the entire ninth season of Friends when he was nominated for a Best Actor Emmy
Earlier this month Perry sported an unkempt appearance as he focused on his home renovation in Los Angeles
He said he could handle it at the time but he was 'entrenched in a lot of trouble' by the time he was 34.
He revealed there were years during that time in which he was sober including the whole of season nine, the year he got nominated for the Best Actor Emmy, eventually losing out to Everybody Loves Raymond's Ray Romano.
At one point during his Friends career, he admits he was taking 55 Vicodin a day and was down to 128 pounds but yet he 'didn't know how to stop.'
He even admitted he would attend open houses – not because he was interested in buying the house, but because he could sometimes find drugs to steal.
He said the disease progressed as he's got older and noted his Friends castmates were 'understanding' and 'patient.'
'You can track the trajectory for my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season,' he wrote in the book.
'When I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills; when I have a goatee, it’s lots of pills.'
The way they were. Perry and his Friends cast mates Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer pose for a publicity shot for the sitcom
Battle: The comedian admitted during the height of his career, he was taking 55 pain killers per day and dropped down to only 128 pounds
In May 2000, his battle with alcohol and drug use had become so severe that he was admitted to the hospital with pancreatitis, a potentially deadly condition that develops from heavy drinking.
And while he insisted that he 'never drank on set,' he told the Los Angeles Times that he would often come to work 'extremely' hungover.
'It's so horrible to feel that way and have to work and be funny on top of that,' the actor said, adding that he would sometimes find himself sweating and shaking on the Friends set.
'I didn't know how to stop,' he also admitted to People. 'If the police came over to my house and said, "If you drink tonight, we're going to take you to jail," I'd start packing.'
While he was working on the movie Serving Sara in 2001, things became so bad that Perry realized he couldn't continue, and he decided to take a break from filming to go back to rehab.
He stepped out of the spotlight for more than two months, before he returned to finish filming Serving Sara.
While it seemed to the public that Perry's battles with addiction ended after that, he secretly almost lost his life a few years ago, at age 49, when his colon burst due to his opioid abuse.
His stomach is covered in scars from his 14 surgeries and said they serve as a reminder to stay sober.
Matthew said his therapist has told him that he may have to have a colostomy bag for the rest of his life if he takes drugs again, which helps him to avoid relapsing.
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