Matthew Perry thought for “years” that his “penis wasn’t working” until Carrie Fisher’s half-sister Tricia Fisher changed his mind.
The Friends alum has dropped multiple private revelations in his memoirs, Friends, lovers and the great terrible thing, and the last to appear concerns his sex life, or the lack of it in his younger years.
Perry, now 53, told how he “tried to have sex” as a teenager but “couldn’t act” as he had “six beers before”.
Instead of making “the correlation between drinking and [his] private parts,” the actor considered himself “powerless.”
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Perry, who said she began abusing alcohol as a teenager, wrote: “I was walking the planet thinking sex was for other people. For a long time.
“Sex sounded like a lot of fun, but it wasn’t in my arsenal.”
However, when Perry began dating Fisher, now 53, in the late 1980s and told her about his “embarrassing story”, she assured him that his arousal problems “wouldn’t happen again pass” and “drove”. [him] go back to bed”.
“Sure enough…pure glory for two whole minutes,” he joked in the book.
Perry joked that he repaid the actress for her kindness by “sleeping with almost every woman in Southern California.”
In his memoir, which was released Tuesday, the Golden Globe nominee details many of his relationships, including his 1995 split from Julia Roberts.
“Dating with Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly sure that she would break up with me,” he said about why the relationship ended.
“I was not enough; It could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unlovable,” Perry added. “So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts.”
Perry also reflected on a fight with then-married Valerie Bertinelli, as well as a date with Cameron Diaz that resulted in a punch to the face.
The book also reveals emotional stories about his long battle with drug and alcohol abuse, which nearly cost him his life.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and is reproduced with permission