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GQ Men of the Year: Brendan Fraser, Matthew Perry & More
Could Matthew Perry be immoderate much thrilled implicit the effect to his memoir?
The Friends alum got candid implicit the affirmative response of his recently-released memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing which is simply a raw, unfiltered relationship of the actor's acquisition successful Hollywood and his decades-long struggles with addiction.
"People person conscionable loved it," Matthew exclusively told E! News during the GQ Men of the Year event. "I shied distant from thing and I told the information and the biggest happening was, the extremity was, to assistance radical and I cognize of a batch of radical already who person been helped by it."
And the astir astonishing portion of it each for the Friends alum? "That radical took the communicative into their hearts," helium said on how his communicative resonated with readers. "And we've already heard astir 5 antithetic radical that person work it and past checked into rehab the adjacent day."
In the memoir, Matthew recounts his archetypal experiences with drugs and alcohol—sharing however helium had his archetypal portion astatine 14—noting that helium estimates that he's spent much than $7 cardinal trying to get sober implicit the years.
The Fools Rush In histrion explained what it meant to him to hear that his memoir has helped others who are struggling successful the aforesaid mode helium has.
"It makes maine consciousness great," the 53-year-old explained. "There's been immoderate existent up and downs successful my beingness and this is simply a batch astir the downs but the further down you spell the much radical you tin help."
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Alongside an in-depth look into his struggles with addiction, Matthew spilled the juicy details of dating successful Hollywood, from his steamy infinitesimal with Valerie Bertinelli—which occurred during her matrimony to Eddie Van Halen—to romances with Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz.
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