Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2022: Matthew Perry, Jennette McCurdy, Garcelle Beauvais and More
usmagazine.comRead all about it! Matthew Perry, Jennette McCurdy and more stars didn’t hold back in their debut memoirs this year.The Friends alum released Friends, Lovers & The Big Terrible Thing in November, chronicling his life’s highs and lows from his experience on the beloved sitcom, his past high-profile relationships and a battle with addiction.
Perry opened up about his sobriety journey, which led to multiple rehab stays through the years.“People would be surprised to know that I have mostly been sober since 2001,” he wrote in the book. “Save for about sixty or seventy little mishaps over the years.
When these mishaps occur, if you want to be sober, which I always did, you’d be given drugs to help you along. What drug may you ask?
You guessed it: phenobarbital!”While Perry played the sarcastic Chandler Bing throughout Friends‘ 10 seasons, he admittedly struggled behind the scenes.“At the time I should have been the toast of the town,” the 17 Again star recalled to Diane Sawyer during an October tell-all interview, noting he would take “55 Vicodin” pills each day. “I was in a dark room meeting nothing but drug dealers and completely alone. … [My costar Jennifer Aniston] was the one that reached out the most.
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