Matthew Perry wrote this memoir about his life and it was published in November 2022, a year before his untimely death in October 2023 which devastated a generation – including myself. I’d only seen Perry as Chandler in Friends, a role he played for 10 years and the episodes of Friends have been repeated so many times that he was on my TV screen for at least two decades.
This memoir describes his childhood – how he is travelling between his mother’s house in Canada and his father’s house in the United States. His mother worked for Canada’s prime minister Pierre Trudeau (the father of the current PM). One of young Matty’s favourite things to do was beating up young Justin Trudeau.
He then goes on to tell you about his time as a struggling actor intertwined with his love life, and his addiction to alcohol and painkillers. And then the success of Friends, Perry states he knew that the show would be a massive hit when he read the first scripts, and he was right!
I listened to the audiobook which was narrated by Matthew Perry himself and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Read for the Read Between the Lines Reading Challenge 2024.
Prompt 8: A Memoir.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
