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How Raw! Matthew Perry (dear Chandler Bing) has had a really tough life. He is so forward about addiction and all that it has cost him. Kudos to him for writing this book and all of his honesty about his affliction.
Eileen S. (smileen) -
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Heartbreaking. I don't know what else to say. He chronicles his history of abandonment and addiction from the time he was a young child. And every time it seemed to get better-it didn't. I feel he was very truthful and didn't leave much out of his story. Frightening in so many places. And sadder yet, is that The Big Terrible Thing finally got him in the end.
Cheryl (boomerbooklover) -
I read this book a few months ago, and some of it still disturbs me. I thought of two sayings as I read it: âBe Careful What You Wish For' and âCocaine is God's way of telling you that you have too much money.' Matthew Perry dreamed and wished, from a young age, to be world famous. With his eventual fame came riches, which enabled him to afford astounding amounts of opiates for years. He spent multi-millions on rehab, and it appears he understood addiction and various treatments, but could not maintain sobriety for very long. I also kept thinking of what good things this man could have done, had he exposed some of the fallacies of various treatment centers he paid tens of thousands of dollars to attend, with little or no results. Having come extremely close to dying from the abuse his addictions wreaked on his body, and spending months in the hospital, it was so sad to see that he relapsed and died from his addiction not long after.
