Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing [antikvár]

Foreword by Lisa Kudrow "How's Mattliew Perry doing?" Over tlie many years since I was first asked, it's been, at different times, the most asked question for me. I understand why so many people asked it: they love Matthew and they want him to be OK. Me too. But I always bristled at that question from the press, because I couldn't say what 1 wanted to say: "It's his story to tell and I'm not authorized to tell it really, am I!" I would have wanted to go on to say, "This is very intimate personal stuff and if you don't hear it from the actual person, it is, to my mind, gossip and I'm not gossiping about Matthew with you." Knowing that no response at all could do more damage, sometimes I would just say, "I think he's doing well." At least that doesn't amplify the spotlight and maybe he can have a fraction of privacy as he tries to deal with this disease. But truly, I wasn't exactly sure how Matthew was doing. As he'll tell you in this book, he was keeping it a secret. And it took some time for him to feel comfortable enough to tell us some of what he was going through. Over those years 1 didn't really try to intervene or confront him, because the little I knew about addiction was that his sobriety was out of my hands. And yet, I would have periods of wondering if I was wrong for not doing more, doing something. But I