Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

English language

Published May 2, 2022 by Flatiron Books.

ISBN:
978-1-250-86646-2
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4 stars (7 reviews)

In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark humor, Perry vividly details his lifelong battle with the disease and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all.

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that shares the most intimate details of the love Perry lost, his darkest days, and his greatest friends.

Unflinchingly honest, moving, and hilarious: this is the book fans have been waiting for. [Dust jacket copy]

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Painfully poignant from the start—more so in light of his passing, but it foresees the end of his life so clearly that it almost doesn't seem like it was written without any knowledge we now have. His candor is refreshing, and brings focus to the mundane aspects of rehab and recovery that are easily overlooked. The idleness; the inefficacy; endless time for introspection, especially during moments where it’s not welcome. It’s an exhausting story, heartbreaking and infuriating, as I’m sure it was for him throughout. But I welcomed the chance to understand a little bit better.

Textbook confirmation of every horrible thing you've ever suspected about celebrities

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2022 reads, #54. So, the latest tell-all celebrity trainwreck memoir is here, this time from Friends star Matthew Perry, who turns out to have spent by his reckoning approximately seven million dollars over the years on rehab facilities and their associated private plane rides to and fro, to feed an uncontrollable liquor and opioid addiction that by all rights should've killed him several years ago (or at least according to the horrific tale that begins the book, in which his colon literally explodes, he goes into a coma for three days, and his family is told that he has an only 2% chance of surviving). The good news here is that it's clear Perry wrote this himself, versus the usual celebrity route of handing off a box of dictaphone tapes to some anonymous ghostwriter schmuck in Echo Park; but unfortunately the way you can tell this is that Perry's prose …

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Subjects

  • Memoir
  • Addiction
  • Hollywood
  • Celebrities