Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends’ and addiction memoir is done, coming out soon
nypost.comrevealed in February that he was working on a memoir — “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” — and shared a snapshot of the cover.
The publisher, Macmillan division Flatiron Books, said Perry would be detailing some behind-the-scenes stories from the NBC sitcom and his struggle with addiction using his “trademark humor.”Perry did stints in rehab in 1997 and 2001.
In a 2016 interview with BBC Radio 2, he said he didn’t remember three years of “Friends,” saying he was a “little out of it” for Seasons 3 through 6 of the iconic show.
In 2021, on HBO Max’s “Friends: The Reunion,” Perry opened up about his struggles with addiction and the pressure to be funny.“To me, I felt like I was going to die if they didn’t laugh,” he said. “If I didn’t get the laugh I was supposed to get, I would freak out.”In a news release last year, Flatiron Book’s Megan Lynch said, “We need humor, we need catharsis, and we need to agree on something — and Matthew’s extraordinary story, told in his inimitable voice, is that thing.
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