Matthew Perry has detailed his failed attempt to lose his virginity to ex-girlfriend Tricia Fisher and how alcoholism impacted his sex life in another excerpt from his new memoir.The actor, 53, who has been spilling candid memories in Friends, Lovers and The Big Terrible Thing, revealed he suffered from impotence-induced anxiety after alcohol left him unable to perform when he first tried to have sex as a teen in his native Canada.In a passage obtained by the New York Post, the star said he was left 'soft and sad' after attempting to have sex with Tricia, now 53, who he began dating aged 18 in the 1980s.
Oh my: Matthew Perry has detailed his failed attempts to lose his virginity to ex girlfriend Tricia Fisher and how alcoholism impacted his sex life in another excerpt from his new memoir (pictured together in 1987)The star detailed how before leaving Ottawa for LA aged 15, he tried to have sex, drinking 'six beers' for courage but couldn't perform, writing: 'By then I’d been drinking for a few years.
I failed to make the correlation between the booze and my private parts not working.'Perry said he spent years 'walking around the planet thinking sex was something for other people' and hiding his 'great ugly secret' of impotence.
He began dating Tricia, the half-sister of Carrie Fisher and the daughter of Eddie Fisher, and described the couple's valiant attempts to have sex - all to no avail.
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