Henry Winkler Reveals Dyslexia Battle On The ‘Happy Days’ Set In His New Book
deadline.comHenry Winkler, now 77, has recounted his struggles with reading his lines on his hit 1970s sitcom Happy Days because of his dyslexia.
In an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Being Henry: The Fonz… and Beyond, Winkler wrote that he was “so f—ing angry” when he was diagnosed at age 31, when he was already a cultural icon for his role as Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli. “Even in the midst of Happy Days, at the height of my fame and success, I felt embarrassed, inadequate,” Winkler wrote in an excerpt in People. “Every Monday at 10 o’clock, we would have a table reading of that week’s script, and at every reading I would lose my place, or stumble.
I would leave a word out, a line out. I was constantly failing to give the right cue line, which would then screw up the joke for the person doing the scene with me.
Or I would be staring at a word, like ‘invincible,’ and have no idea on earth how to pronounce it or even sound it out.” Winkler added, “My brain and I were in different zip codes.
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