Summary of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening. Frank, self-aware, and with his trademark humor, Matthew Perry vividly depicts his lifelong battle with addiction. Unflinchingly honest, moving, and unforgettable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Nov 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215182659

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Summary of

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

A Memoir By

Matthew Perry

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Willie M. Joseph

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Contents

Prologue

The View

New York

Another Generation Shot to Hell

Matman

Baggage

Dead

Like I’ve Been There Before

Zoom

No Fourth Wall

Bruce Willis

All Heaven Breaking Loose

The Benefit of Friends

Pockets

Odyssey

Trauma Camp

Three’s Not Company, Three Ruins Everything

Violence in Hollywood

The Big Terrible Thing

The Smoking Section

Batman

Prologue

It's Day Seven of the Pain, by Matthew Dysart, and it was also Day Ten of No Movement. Dysart felt like his insides were trying to force their way out. He hadn't taken a shit in ten days; this was the worst pain he'd ever experienced. My mind is out to kill me, and I know it. I am constantly filled with a lurking loneliness, a yearning, clinging to the notion that something outside of me will fix me.

I'd had it all. But it was all a trick. Nothing was going to fix this. If I didn't have alcohol to soothe my nerves and help me have fun, I would have leaped off a tall building sometime in my twenties, Perry writes. I don't think I have ever slept for more than four hours straight in my entire life..

I was coming off Xanax my brain had fried to the point where I was convinced that I was an actual prisoner, he