"I Should Be Dead": The One Where Matthew Perry Spoke About Drug Abuse
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Matthew Perry, in his memoir, described going through detox dozens of times and spending millions of dollars in repeated attempts to get sober.
"I should be dead," Matthew Perry wrote in the prologue of his memoir 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing', published last year. In the book, which he dedicated to "all of the sufferers out there", the 'Friends' star talked about drug abuse and alcoholism and described going through detox dozens of times and spending millions of dollars in repeated attempts to get sober.
The prologue talks about his time living in a sober living house in Southern California. “This was no surprise - I have lived half my life in one form or another in a treatment centre or sober living house. Which is fine when you are twenty-four years old, less fine when you are forty-two years old. Now I was forty-nine, still struggling to get this monkey off my back,” he wrote.
The title of the book sums up his incredible highs and shattering lows and the "big terrible thing" in his life: "My addiction being my best friend and my punisher and my lover, all in one. My big terrible thing".
