Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
By Matthew Perry
- Genre
- Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books (Macmillan)
- Publication year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781250866448
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is a memoir by the actor Matthew Perry, published by Flatiron Books in November 2022. Perry, best known as Chandler Bing on Friends, describes his career and his long addiction to alcohol and opioids. It was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller...
Millions knew Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing; far fewer knew that, during much of Friends, he was fighting for his life. His memoir is a candid, often darkly comic account of addiction to alcohol and opioids, the treatments and relapses, and the fame that ran alongside the disease without curing it. Perry writes with the timing of a sitcom veteran and the bleak honesty of someone who nearly died more than once, refusing to present recovery as a finished triumph. intendle recommends it as an unusually frank celebrity memoir about a common, deadly illness, made more poignant by the author's death in 2023. An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, it reached readers who grew up with him and those who recognized their own struggles in his. Funny, harrowing and generous with hard-won detail, it is the story behind a face the world thought it already knew.