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'Hard to face': The one where Matthew Perry wrote a brutal memoir

By Elisabeth Egan
New York Times·
9 mins to read

This article was originally published in October 2022. Matthew Perry was found dead in his Pacific Palisades home over the weekend.

In Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, the actor gets serious about sobriety, mortality, colostomy bags and pickleball.

When I pictured Matthew Perry, the actor frequently known as Chandler Bing, I saw him on the tangerine couch at Central Perk or seated on one of the twin recliners in the apartment he shared with Joey Tribbiani.

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