Actor Matthew Perry will write about his time on the hit sitcom Friends and his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction in a new memoir coming next year.
Flatiron Books announced it had acquired the as-yet-untitled book in a news release.
“In the book, Perry takes readers behind-the-scenes and onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction,” Flatiron says. “Candid, self-aware and told with his trademark humor, Perry vividly details his lifelong battle with the disease and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all.”
Perry began acting in the 1980s, with early prominent roles in the sitcom Boys Will Be Boys and the film A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon. He shot to stardom when Friends debuted in 1994; the series would go on to become one of the most enduring American sitcoms of all time.
Perry has been open about his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction. In a 2002 interview with the New York Times, he discussed seeking treatment for the disorder, saying, “I didn’t get sober because I felt like it. I got sober because I was worried I was going to die the next day.”
Flatiron says Perry’s memoir “is unflinchingly honest, dishy, and hilarious: this is the book that Friends fans have been waiting for but will also shed a powerful light for anyone who is in their own battle for themselves or a loved one.”
The memoir is set for publication in the fall of 2022.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
