Matthew Perry, the late actor best known for playing Chandler Bing in the hit television series Friends, died at the age of 54 in 2023 and a recent documentary series, The One About Matthew Perry, based on the life of the late actor explores many lesser-known aspects of his life. In the series, many of Matthew’s friends and family members recalled anecdotes about his life, accompanied by many video and audio interviews from the actor where he opened up about his dependency on alcohol and other drugs.

In the documentary series, an old audio clip in Matthew’s voice talks about his experience of travelling as an “unescorted minor” that added to his deep sense of loneliness. After his parents’ divorce, Matthew’s father lived in Los Angeles and his mother lived in Montreal, Canada and he would often travel between the two cities.

“When I was five, they put me on a plane from Montreal to Los Angeles. What they did was, they put a thing around my head that said ‘unescorted minor’.…