There, drinking and fame presented themselves as solutions, things that could plug all the holes, fix him. (Perry acknowledges throughout his book the similarities between himself and Chandler.)Īt 15, he moved to California to live with his father. He has had enough therapy to recognise that his problems might be rooted in that dysfunctional childhood and those long unsupervised journeys: the diffusion of tension by cracking wise, the fight for his mother’s attention one laugh at a time. Matthew Perry grew up in Ottawa with his mother, who had high-profile jobs including as press secretary to prime minister Pierre Trudeau, and would travel unaccompanied to visit his father, an actor, in Los Angeles. For a book about a life getting high, this is a collection only of lows. Reading it is exactly as grim and as exhausting as all that sounds. It is an account of three decades of addiction, crippling pain, comas, an exploding colon, loneliness, self-hatred, self-sabotage, failed relationships, and expensive rehabs (it is also an account of the staggering expense of sobriety). Just please make me famous.” The actor’s memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, is the story of how God held up both sides of that bargain. “God, you can do whatever you want to me. In 1994, three weeks before he was cast as Chandler Bing in Friends, Matthew Perry prayed.
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