It seems the title of one of the episodes of the series that made him famous: Chandler became a best seller. Better yet, the day Matthew Perry became a best seller and went on tour with his memoir.
The tour started this week and covers only four cities (New York, New Jersey, Washington DC and Toronto) and its tickets can be purchased on the website of the same company that sells, for example, Bono’s tour with its own memoir, structured around 40 songs by the U2.
In Los Angeles, where the iconic film shot friendshe will arrive only on December 10th and only to sign his autobiography at The Grove bookshop.
A full hall and sold out tickets
Matthew Perry is popular and loved like a rock star, there is no question, which is why it is ready for a sold out tour. The first stop, in New York (the only one that also had a virtual format) allowed him to see him relaxed, apparently very comfortable in this new role that was imposed on him to help other addicts to overcome the disease.
He must not have thought that writing for nearly losing his life in his battle against alcohol and opioid addiction would have put him so closely in contact with his fans, some former drug addicts like him, who give him all of his life in this new format. your love, your warm applause and your laughter.
Until now the actor seemed taciturn and nervous when we journalists got close. Last Friday, for example, he was tense in his first TV interview for the book, receiving Diane Sawyer at her Beverly Hills home.
This was not the case at Times Square City Hall. There he indulged in jokes (“the vodka is very good, thank you” he said over a glass of water) and also to show his amazement at the phenomenal success of his book, which had been on sale the day before and became immediately a best seller from Amazon.
On stage, Matthew Perry told reporter Jess Cagle (your interlocutors will vary from city to city) that it wasn’t as difficult for him to write the book as to read it for the audiobook version. Friends, lovers and the great terrible thing Start with a terrific sentence. “Hi, my name is Matteo, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And he should be dead. “
Review your own life
Matty will remember his parents’ divorce when he was very young. In the tour he tells how that stigma of “unaccompanied minor” remained on him, a sign that the airline put him on when he was 5 and his father, an actor, flew him alone from Los Angeles to meet his mother who was waiting for him in Montreal, where he worked as a press officer for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
At 14 he was the Canadian junior tennis champion. At 24, he got his life’s job of him: “like being a second baseman on the Yankees baseball team.”
For 10 seasons he built friends cute character, Chandler Bing, someone who hides behind the jokes saying he is vulnerable and has no confidence in himself. Almost like a mirror of his life, he now recognizes it.
With glasses, dressed in sportswear, tending to make “Chandler” jokes, this experience allows us to meet him perhaps for the first time. Since he almost died, when they had to perform resuscitation maneuvers for four minutes when he was given Propofol in surgery, he says he has understood that his mission is to help other addicts, to tell them that it is confusing but they can get out of it, that they are not alone.
Matthew Perry acknowledges he was lucky enough to make millions to pay for expensive rehab that didn’t always work. His addiction to pills began as a child when he was prescribed barbiturates for sleep.
And that when you see it in some seasons of friends very skinny is because he was abusing the pills. And when it is seen that he is overweight it is due to alcohol. “I realized that the fame I was looking for so much did not fill that void I had inside”.
Applause arrives and he lets himself be pampered, smiling when his fans shout “We love you” from the audience.
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Source: Clarin
