![]() ![]() You write that at one point you were “so lonely that it hurt.” Was writing this book partly an attempt to alleviate that loneliness? ![]() And it has already made headlines, both for its bountiful amount of Canadiana (Perry, whose mother Suzanne was once Pierre Trudeau’s press secretary, recounts how he once beat up a school-age Justin) and its faux pas (Perry has already spent part of his press tour apologizing for writing, “Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”).įriends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, by Matthew Perry. ![]() ![]() These include the millions of dollars that he spent on rehab (15 stints all told), the number of Vicodin tablets that he would ingest per day (55), and how long he spent in a coma after a near-death experience (two weeks).īut as unflinching and raw as Perry’s book is, it is also big-hearted, insightful and hilarious – a kind of sitcom-skewed tour through one man’s personal hell. With apologies to Chandler Bing, could Matthew Perry’s new memoir be any more harrowing?įriends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which was released this past week, details the Canadian actor’s many career highs – earning more than $1-million a week to star on NBC’s Friends, teaming up with Bruce Willis for the box-office smash The Whole Nine Yards – and many, many lows. ![]()
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