One of the lowest moments inMatthew Perry’s life coincided with his very famous fling’s crowning achievement.
“I made a joke.
‘I’ll take you back,’ I said.
Matthew Perry; Julia Roberts.Mike Windle/Getty; Terry McGinnis/WireImage
‘I’ll take you back.’
The whole room laughed, though this was not a funny line in a sitcom.
This was real life now.
Those people on the TV were no longer my people.
And I was lucky to have them.
They were saving my life.”
“When you are at the bottom, the days are long,” he writes.
“I didn’t need an Oscar, I just needed one more day.”
Perry and Robertshad started dating before that with the help of a quantum physics paper.
Perry wrote it, the two struck up a friendship via fax, and they eventually started dating.
“Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me,” Perry writes.
“I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me.
Why would she not?
I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unloveable.
I can’t begin to describe the look of confusion on her face.”
Perry’s new memoir,Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, is out Nov. 1.
