Matthew Perry Once Shared The 1 Thing He Really Wanted To Be Remembered For
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Matthew Perry knew his legacy would always be linked to “Friends,” but he wanted to be remembered for his work off-camera. The “Whole Nine Yards” star was very public about his struggles with alcoholism and addiction, and candidly wrote about it in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.” During his promotional tour for his book last year, Perry told The New York Times that he had been sober for over a year and was sponsoring three members of Alcoholics Anonymous. “You said in the book, ‘I think you have to have all your dreams come true to realize they’re the wrong dreams,’” Power read, and then asked Perry: “What are the dreams now?” In response to the question, Perry decided to first speak about the thing he likes the most about himself. “ will be remembered for an incredibly powerful monologue spoken by Perry’s character Jack set in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting,” Adam Bloodworth, a theater critic for the Independent who saw Perry’s play, wrote. “That message is very powerful because I thought it would fix everything and, you know, it didn’t,” Perry told Power.
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