97: Matthew Perry...Friends, Lovers and The Big Terrible Thing

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Join us as we discuss Matthew Perry's Memoir...Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing...Please don't hate us all you Friends fans, but this book really brought us down....listen in and see why...

We've also included a copy of a book review that Joy and I both sadly agreed with....see it below

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Reddit Book Review

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2 yr. ago
Terrible_Vermicelli1

I feel sick and disgusted after reading Matthew's Pery memoir

Could you be any more delusional and self-serving as this man? I loved him in Friends and for a long time was feeling very sympathetic towards him and his struggles, addiction can get to the best of people and I do admire those who keep fighting. But this book was something else. A blatant lack of self-awareness, narcissism and inflated ego was just too much.

This is the man, who admits he cheated on basically each of his girlfriends, yet at the same time thinks "he's a very good person, he would never hurt anyone and God can see this".

This is the man who hurt and drove away those who helped him the most, those who spent months with him in hospitals and rehabs, risking their careers and private lives, and suddenly were disposable when he was discharged because "as long as I'm sober, I don't need them any more and now they're needy".

This is the man who constantly shits on every person more successful than him. Who thinks that every bad thing that happened to him must be the fault of someone else. That he's not even in the slightest responsible for how his life looks like, because "it's a disease, and you're lucky you don't have it, woe is me, I don't have any control over it". Who destroyed so many movies because of his addiction, and once just disappeared for 6 months during the production to go on a binge and later detox, and is in absolute shock they sued him for financial loses. "How could they, it was health issue??". Who hurt every woman he's every been with, but when his ex (!) informs him she's getting married and won't be able to attend his play he says "her emailing me about it is the worst thing someone has done to me, I would NEVER do that to a person, how could she". The whole book is just constant self-serving "me, myself and I, why everyone around me is always wrong and why all I did to myself and other people is not my fault". I was physically ill by the end of this book.

The narcissism is so obvious it's not even funny. Early in his career his supposed friend rejected role of Chandler, which he obviously later regretted seeing how it played out for Matthew. What Perry has to say about it? He just randomly quotes a journalist saying that it was a blessing to the world it was Perry who was cast and that his friend would be a shitty Chandler anyway. Who the hell would do something like that to a friend? Did you just kept this quote memorized for 20+ years or went out of your way to locate any negative comment about your friend to include this in your memoir? Absolutely shocking. More on narcissism - he writes his first play in 10 days and self proclaims it as "great work better than classics" and gets all annoyed that it was demolished by critics. Did it ever occur to him that maybe it wasn't that good and he could work on it more? Of course not, critics just don't understand his genius, and besides, here's one semi-positive review he found - proc