Read all about it! Matthew Perry, Jennette McCurdy and more stars didn’t hang back in their debut memoirs this 12 months.

The Friends alum launched Friends, Lovers & The Big Terrible Thing in November, chronicling his lifestyles’s highs and lows from his experience on the beloved sitcom, his past high-profile relationships and a battle with addiction. Perry opened up about his sobriety adventure, which led to multiple rehab stays through the years.

“People could be surprised to understand that I have mostly been sober since 2001,” he wrote in the book. “Save for approximately sixty or seventy little mishaps over the years. When those mishaps occur, if you wish to be sober, which I at all times did, you’d be given medication that can assist you alongside. What drug may you ask? You guessed it: phenobarbital!”

While Perry played the sarcastic Chandler Bing right through Friends‘ 10 seasons, he admittedly struggled behind the scenes.

“At the time I should were the toast of town,” the 17 Again big name recalled to Diane Sawyer all through an October tell-all interview, noting he would take “55 Vicodin” drugs on a daily basis. “I was in a gloomy room meeting nothing but drug dealers and totally by myself. … [My costar Jennifer Aniston] was once the one that reached out the most. I’m actually grateful to her for that.”

Perry’s former costars, for their part, are equally proud of their longtime pal sharing his truth in Friends, Lovers & The Big Terrible Thing. “[They’re] all very supportive and proud of him to be coming clean and giving himself closure in such a lot of areas,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly upon e-newsletter. “There was a wariness in the build-up to the release evidently, that he can have spilled so much more embarrassing secrets than he did.”

Earlier within the 12 months, McCurdy made headlines together with her own memoir, which is titled I’m Glad My Mom Died.

“I sought after one thing that was daring and also something that I meant sincerely. I might by no means use a daring and crowd pleasing identify if it weren’t unique,” the iCarly alum told The Hollywood Reporter in August of naming her e-book after her tumultuous courting together with her late mom, who died in 2013. “I might by no means do it if it were simply coming from a flippant position. That’s not my approach to humor. I knew that any one who had experienced parental abuse would understand the title, and anybody who had a way of humor would understand the title.”

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In the ebook, McCurdy detailed her difficult relationship with her mom, who allegedly forced her daughter to begin acting.

“You can’t hand over! This was once our chance! This used to be ouuuuur chaaaaance!” the Sam & Cat alum wrote at the time, relating to her mother’s response to McCurdy wanting to surrender appearing prior to landing the role of Sam Puckett on iCarly. “She bangs at the steerage wheel, unintentionally hitting the horn. Mascara trickles down her cheeks. She’s hysterical, like I was within the Hollywood Homicide audition. Her hysteria frightens me and demands to be taken care of.”

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