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Matthew Perry Memoir Back On Charts Following Jennifer Aniston Interview
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Matthew Perry's 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, has returned to the charts, currently the #1 best-selling television performer biography on Amazon. The boost in sales comes after Jennifer Aniston's new Vanity Fair cover story, which sees the fellow Friends star opening up about Perry's death. 'We did everything we could when we could,' said Aniston. 'But it almost felt like we'd been mourning Matthew for a long time because his battle with that disease was a really hard one for him to fight.'
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Matthew Perry's memoir started making headlines before its release, with bombshells about the Friends star's decades-long struggle with addiction, as well as the actor's odd attacks on Keanu Reeves (which he subsequently apologized for). Many fans returned to the memoir when Perry died a year after its release.
If you want to pick up the book for yourself, Perry's memoir is currently available on Amazon in Kindle, hardcover, or Audible audiobook formats (narrated by the actor himself).
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Covering his journey from childhood through Friends-era super-stardom and his current life of sobriety, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir centers on Perry's decades-long abuse of opioids and alcohol. 'Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead,' begins the memoir, before detailing anecdotes of a burst colon and a heart stoppage just a few years ago — both resulting from his drug usage.
At one point during filming for Season 3 of Friends, Perry says he was taking 55 Vicodin a day: 'I had to have 55 every day, otherwise I'd get so sick,' he writes. 'It was a full-time job: making calls, seeing doctors, faking migraines, finding crooked nurses who would give me what I needed.' In a recent New York Times interview around the memoir's release, Perry shared that he's 'spent $9 million or something trying to get sober' over the years.
But addiction isn't the book's sole focus. Perry recounts his love life with partners including Friends co-star Courteney Cox, Julia Roberts, and Molly Hurwitz, as well as his friendship with Jennifer Aniston, who confronted him about his drug use: 'To be confronted by Jennifer Aniston was devastating,' writes Perry.
Perry came under fire ahead of the book's release for a series of excerpts apparently aimed at Keanu Reeves. One passage comes as the actor grappled with River Phoenix's death: 'River was a beautiful man, inside and out — too beautiful for this world, it turned out. It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down. Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?' After major backlash for these comments, Perry apologized, telling People, 'I'm actually a big fan of Keanu. I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.'
Head to Amazon to buy Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir now in paperback or hardcover format. The Perry-narrated audiobook is available for free with an Audible subscription (start a free trial here).
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