I just found out that Matthew Perry actor who played Chandler Bing in "Friends" series just died in a hot tub.
Usually I don't buy biographies of actors, but now I did.
The book is published one year before he is dead, so it is like a confession .
A confession of an actor before the public.
He was very affected by separation of his parents.
He was a cry baby and doctors in their wisdom prescribed him, fenobarbital.
He started to drink at an young age.
At 15 yr he left the house of his mother in Canada to join his father in California.
His father was drinking 5 glasses of vodka daily but he kept on acting.
He followed in his father's steps, he exceeded his father in acting career and in drinking
It seems that he drunk when he got anxious.
One day after a skyjet accident, one doctor prescribed him Oxycotin, he felt better.
The doctor gave him 40 pills.
He was hooked, he entered and exited numerous rehabilitation clinics for opioids and alcohol.
At the end he couldn't even smoke because of an ephizema.
I wonder how effective the rehabilitation clinics are if a guy who wants to rehabilitate and has money for it, relapses.
But the opioids worked slowly for Matthew destruction, they slowed his bowel movement, he was constipated, his colon burst open, he got septicemy. He was 2 weeks in coma.
He said that only thing that kept him afloat was his work as an actor, and expecially work at Friends series.
The tight knit, team of actors and Screenplayers acted like a surogate family who gave him attention and recognition that need it.
I rewatch now the series and try to find a hint about his struggles in his acting but I can't find anything.
Overall it is good book especially for those who battle addiction and have emotional problems.
