After the release of his searingly honest and deeply personal memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, in which he opened up about decades of unimaginable addiction levels to drugs and alcohol, Matthew Perry revealed he’d found what he believed to be his purpose in life. Having come close to death many times, he would ask himself why he was alive. It wasn’t just to entertain, as he had dreamed of doing since he was a teenager and had realised when he landed the role of Chandler Bing in the sitcom behemoth Friends. What he wanted to do, and what he promised he would make his life’s work, was to
