Matthew Perry dies at 54: From beating Justin Trudeau, drug addictions, relations and more, here's 10 things to know

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'Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing', released almost a year before his death, Perry provided details about himself before he was on the hit '90s sitcom and beyond. He also wrote about his battle with addiction and the cost of fame. In his memoir, Perry wrote that his mother began working as a press aide for former prime minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, and moved to Toronto when he was 10.

He started acting up in the form of smoking and getting bad grades, reported celebrity.nine.com.au. Perry claimed in his book that he had beaten up a young Justin Trudeau, Pierre's son and now Canadian prime minister. ALSO READ: ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry passes away: Five money lessons to learn from Chandler Bing Perry recalled that when he was 14 and a nationally-ranked tennis player in Canada, he drank – a bottle of Andrès Baby Duck. He wrote that when friends began throwing up, he found a sense of peace.

"I was lying back in the grass and the mud, looking at the moon, surrounded by fresh puke, and … nothing bothered me," the website noted him writing in his memoir. When 15, Perry moved from Canada to Hollywood, hoping to reconnect with his father. This move created a rift between Perry and his mother.

He remembered that in Hollywood, he began grappling with the disease, drinking six vodka tonics every night. Though, he was not a high-functioning alcoholic, like his father. Being close to American actor and musician River Phoenix, with whom he starred in 'A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon', Perry was devastated after Phoenix died at the age of 23.