Matthew Perry Extended Interview | ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’

[Applause] foreign s of all time he's now ridden a number one New York Times best-selling book called friends lovers and the big terrible thing please welcome Matthew Perry well we want to say congratulations for you having a number one book around the world that is Major it gotta feel good it does feel very good well you share some very personal things you spent have your life trying to get sober yeah you've been to rehab 15 times over 15 times you've detoxed over 65 times at one point you were taking 55 pills a day your colon exploded from drug use and at one point you were given a two percent chance to live when you walked out here all I saw was a miracle that's what I saw can you tell us why now why did you want to share your story uh well I thought it was time to share my story I first of all when you tell a story like this you have to be pretty sure of your sobriety you know you're not going to write a book like this and then show up at a restaurant and order a martini you know so it was it was time my sobriety was very safe and you know when you get to a low and you get to a real low that's a time when you can really help the most people yeah and it was time for me to help the most people and and that's why I did it now this book will definitely save lives for sure I hope so thank you talk about God in your book uh well God is a very uh is a very important part of my book I uh you know because I I haven't prayed often but I I made a prayer early on in my book and I wanted to be famous like I wanted I wanted to be famous and I was 23 years old and I said God you can do anything you want to me just please make me famous and about three weeks later I got friends foreign yes but God did not forget the other part and uh you know gave me a lot of tough stuff in my life um and that's how that's how I realized that the outside stuff doesn't really matter right and being famous doesn't really matter and isn't going to change your life and I've heard people quote often that if you get all you want if all your dreams comes come true that doesn't that doesn't fix the inside that doesn't that doesn't fix it and you I think you have to be famous to believe that and it was just jarring it was just like wait a minute I I got the American dream it happened it was like you guys dancing you were so happy and yet it it didn't fill it it didn't it didn't fix it feel the voice you know so I had to find other things and what I found was helping people and helping people on a grand scale sometimes because I was fortunate enough to be on that show yes and and I found I got the same amount of juice from helping one guy as a hundred thousand people it didn't didn't matter I got I got the same amount of help myself helping one person or helping a lot of people and you see the light come on in their eyes and they start to come to life because of stuff that you've said yes and that's the dream come true that's the dream you are a walking testimony is again I can't help but to see that like you're a walking testimony even you speaking of your prayers and saying you you asked God to make you famous and that shows you got to be specific in your prayer requests and when you when you do that then it will manifest itself you know what I mean and so I just can't help but to see like that you are a walking Miracle okay so we're on the Warner Brothers lot and friends was shot here so how does it feel to be back oh it feels amazing to be back here and I drove here the same way that I did yeah I was here for 11 years 11 years it was incredible driving here and you know it was it was I miss everybody and you know I really do we all love each other and I missed everybody and um it was incredible driving here you know we had we we just had such a good time that's beautiful I wanna know do you watch friends at this on I watch I watch it a little bit yeah I don't watch it that much um I don't watch it that much because sometimes it's painful to watch because I was in difficult situations and you know sometimes it's tough to watch for me but I watch it sometimes and it's definitely funny you're funny talk about love your love life in the book um you dated Julia Roberts and y'all used to talk about fax machine what was that look at that well [Applause] thank you very much uh it was a long time ago so we were you know having our courtship over fax machine that is adorable and then somewhere in the world there's like a stack of faxes like the courtship of us and uh you know I would stand there with my best friend and we'd see the next piece of paper come in oh yeah it was pretty exciting your debt was a sinker yes what did he sing he sang for a group called The Serendipity singers who are famous for having the number three song in the country when the Beatles had one two four and five wow do you say I don't really sing but when he was 40 my dad he started to do westerns and he started to do a few westerns in a row and he liked that and he decided to be a cowboy when he was 40 and I was wondering when I'm 40 am I going to sign to be like an astronaut what where did that come from he's from New England and he bought you know cattle and horses and I was like what happened to you what happened yeah well maybe you'll be a singer then maybe I'll be a singer we'll see you know there's a lot of dancing here or dancing we want more of you that's for sure okay you you wrote about wanting kids do you still want kids I wouldn't mind you know are you busy actually [Applause] okay well we'll talk about it we'll talk we'll talk about it don't forget to subscribe to the Jennifer Hudson Show YouTube channel and turn on that notification Bell so you're the first to see our latest videos

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Length: 8min 8sec (488 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 22 2022