Matthew Perry
His autobiography is finished
Matthew Perry rose to worldwide fame as Chandler Bing in “Friends.”
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The book “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing” is ready! “Friends” star Matthew Perry shares this news on Instagram.
Fans of the “Friends” series should be happy about this news: Matthew Perry (52), who played Chandler Bing in the cult series, has finished writing his memoirs. He announces that on Instagram.
“My ego doesn’t like that I have to stop writing about myself,” the actor said. One photo shows a stack of paper with the title of his book Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing on the front. “But the book is finished. So that’s it,” he adds.
7.8 million fans follow the 52-year-old on the social media platform. Some of them express their anticipation about the book in the comments and write, among other things, “The one episode in which Chandler wrote a book” or “Could I be more excited for this book?” in reference to his “Friends” cult character.
The book promises these revelations
In October 2021, Matthew Perry first announced that he was working on his autobiography. In it he wanted to report about his life and career, it said. In February 2022 followed the title and further details about the book, which is scheduled for release on November 1 of this year. In Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry “takes readers to the stage of the highest-grossing sitcom of all time and shares his personal battle with addiction “, it says in the announcement text of the publisher Flatiron. Perry struggled with drug problems throughout his career.
“Perry vividly describes his lifelong struggle with the disease and what led to it, despite seemingly having everything,” the publisher continued. The actor also does not want to talk about “more difficult times” with the cast of “Friends”, reported “Us Weekly” citing an anonymous source in February. Filming on the “Friends” set wasn’t always a “bed of roses” for Perry. “He will also talk about how the reunion went, the good and the bad.”
“So much has been written about me in the past. I thought it was about time people heard from me,” Perry wrote back then on Instagram. “The highs were high, the lows were low. But I survived to tell the story, even if at times it seemed like I wouldn’t make it.”