. >>> and diane sawyer with "friends" star matthew perry. the exclusive interview on addiction, the struggle, and why you cannot do it alone. what he wants everyone to know. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. we are monitoring reports of that earthquake late today rattling the san francisco bay area. the largest earthquake to hit in nearly a decade. what scientists are warning tonight. >>> but we do begin here with the discovery after that deadly school shooting that left a student and teacher dead. authorities say the 19-year-old who just graduated, another young man with an ar-15-style rifle. the images of the teenagers running for their lives. their hands up in st. louis. police now say the 19-year-old, who graduated last year, had more than 600 rounds of ammunition. and tonight, the handwritten note he left behind. we are not going to report on its entirety, but the sheriff tonight on the line that was not only disturbing, but a wakeup call yet again. abc's alex perez leading us off in

years with no annual contract and a free streaming box. >>> finally tonight here, a note about the diane sawyerspecial this friday night. her interview with "friends" star matthew perry on addiction, his struggle, and why you cannot fight it alone. here's diane with a first look. >> reporter: you say addiction, the big terrible thing, is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. but together, one day at a time, we can beat it down. >> yeah. i believe that's true. your disease is just waiting for you, waiting to get you alone, because alone you lose to the disease. and now i finally feel okay and feel like i've got some strength. >> reporter: what does it mean to feel okay? >> it means that i've developed some safety nets around this. i'm doing really well now. for some reason, it's obviously because i was on "friends", more people will listen to me. so, i've got to take advantage of that. i've got to help as many people as i can. >> the deeply moving interview, actor matthew perry with diane. the "20/20" special event, friday night, 8:00 p.m. eastern, right here. good night. it building a be

. >>> and diane sawyer and her interview with former "friends" star matthew perry. tonight, what you didn't see here. perry describing at one point during "friends" being on 55 vicodin a day. and he reveals to diane what he would do on sundays. visiting open houses to look in medicine cabinets. and why he's telling his story now. >>> good evening and thank you for joining us here on a thursday night. we begin tonight with that frightening scene unfolding in new york city. a city bus hijacked during the commute. what the bus driver does to save as many as 25 passengers before jumping out of the window himself. the bus then crashing. police say the suspect sat just behind the driver, ordering him to drive. that driver first opening all of the doors to get the passengers off. a surveillance camera capturing the bus as it travels more than a mile. only the driver and the hijacker inside. the driver then jumping out of that window. the bus slamming into a utility pole. people nearby hearing the crash when the bus finally comes to a halt. the suspect taken into custody. an

it's the exclusive interview with diane sawyer.ry says he spent half his 53 years in treatment or in sober living houses. it's all part of his harrowing road to sobriety. >> reporter: a home in los angeles. the door opens. >> mom? oh, it's diane sawyer. >> oh, that matthew perry. really wonderful to see you. >> good to see you, please come in. >> reporter: matthew perry is 53 years old. but he knows most of us will always remember when we first saw him. >> okay, who wants light cheese, who wants dark cheese? >> reporter: chandler, played by an actor who was effortlessly so fast, an original. and now it seems impossible that all those years ago when we were laughing, we never knew that the young star was fighting for his life in a riptide of addiction. it was pulling him to hell and back over and over again, and he was trying to keep it a secret from everyone. >> secrets kill you. secrets kill people like me. >> reporter: now matthew perry has put those secrets on the pages of a book. it is dedicated to other sufferers who, like him

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speaking to diane sawyer days before the release of his memoir , friends, lovers and the big, terrible thing, 6000 a meetings therapy, 30 years 15 rehabs, maybe at least you say, addiction. the big, terrible thing is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. but together one day at a time. we can beat it down. i believe that's true diseases just outside just in one arm pushups just waiting just waiting for you to get you alone. because alone. you lose, and now i finally feel okay and feel like i've got some strength. the front star says he's been sober for 18 months, telling the new york times he believes he's probably spent $9 million or something trying to get their rolling stone publishing excerpts from his memoir, revealing that at one point, perry's heart stopped for five minutes after he was prescribed propofol ahead of surgery. the actor writing it wasn't a heart attack. i didn't flatline, but nothing in had been beating. he had to pull out of the movie. don't look up and says even in rehab, he was lying to doctors about stomach pain to get meds like hydrocodone. perry now tr

we are hearing new details this morning from diane sawyer's exclusive interview with friends co star matthew perry. perry is opening up about his struggles with drugs and alcohol in his new memoir, friends, lovers and the big, terrible thing, but this morning, we're getting a clearer picture of just how big that terrible thing really was for perry. friends lovers and the big, terrible things. you start with a thunderclap. first page. hi my name is matthew. although you may know me by another name , my friends call me maddy and i should be dead. yeah. that's definitely true. he has been in detox, he estimates 65 times survived 14 surgeries after a nearly fatal emergency three years ago. they ran me into they emergency trauma room. and it was in there that my colon exploded. i was put on an act more machine. and that machine when you talk to any doctor it is. a hail mary is the last thing that you do before people die. and there were five people that night they were put on ecmo machine and i was the only one who survived. he was in a coma for 14 days. as he heals from all he's been thr

matthew perry one-on-one with diane sawyer. the "friends" star brilliantly funny on camera -- >> dear god. this parachute is a knapsack. >> -- but struggling behind the scenes. this morning, his hard fought battle with addiction. >> your disease is just outside doing one-arm pushups just waiting to get you alone because alone you lose to the disease. >> the journey from alcohol to pills. >> 55 vicodin a day, which is where i was. >> 55. >> narrowly escaping death. why he's sharing his story now. how he hopes to help others. ♪ we found love in a hopeless place ♪ >>> and we are ready for more rihanna. overnight the singer shining at the "black panther: wakanda forever" premiere. the countdown to her new song is officially on. angela bassett and the cast honoring the late chadwick boseman and the tribute behind rihanna's music revealed. ♪ we found love in a hopeless place ♪ >>> good morning, america. good to see rihanna at the premiere of "black panther: wakanda forever," but there's a lot of excitement for the movie and the premi

speaking to diane sawyer, days before the release of his memoir, friends, lovers and the big, terriblething, 6000 a meetings therapy, 30 years, 15. rehabs maybe at least a addiction. the big, terrible thing is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. but together one day at a time. we can beat it down. i believe that's true. your disease is just outside. just doing one armed pushups just waiting just waiting for you waiting to get you alone. because alone, you lose. to the disease. and now i finally feel okay and feel like i've got some strength starsays he's been sober for 18 months, telling the new york times he believes he's probably spent $9 million or something trying to get their rolling stone publishing excerpts from his memoir, revealing that at one point, perry's heart stopped for five minutes after he was prescribed propofol ahead of surgery. the actor writing it wasn't a heart attack. i didn't flatline, but nothing had been beating. he says doctors broke eight of his ribs trying to revive him. he had to pull out of the movie. don't look up and says even in rehab, he was

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matthew perry and diane sawyer one-on-one. the "friends" star who always made us laugh. >> i'm not great at the advice. can i interest you in a sarcastic comment? >> but what was really going on during the "friends" phenomenon. this morning, pulling back the curtain on his isolating addiction battle. the moment one of his friends reached out. >> and she says, we know you're drinking. >> yeah, imagine how scary of a moment that was. >> and the scene that's still hard for him to watch. >> i'm so grateful to not be that anymore. >> now his hope to help others. what he tells them when someone calls him for help and how he'll know if he needs help once again. >>> all you can fly? how frontier is shaking up the airline industry with its new unlimited pass. ♪ we are family ♪ >>> and we're celebrating homecoming at florida a&m university with famu and the incomparable marching 100 band. t.j. is live in tallahassee as their school spirit sends us into the weekend. >>> good morning, america. this is a great jam. gets you going. george c

he tells diane sawyer .he was barely holding things together on the show, losing so much weight when he was on pills that his clothes were hanging off of him. 55 like in a day, which is where i was 55. yeah. how did you get 55 a day? well, i had to wake up and i realized that i needed to get 55 of them or i was going to be really sick. so we go to open houses and go to the bathrooms in the sub in the open house and see what pills they had in there and steal them. and i think they thought, well, there's no way that chandler came in and stole from us much more on the interview later on good morning america and diane's 2020 special airs tonight at 88 eastern, coming up americans turning their back on beer. also reaction is pouring into this image of a coal miner who rushed straight from work. to us take straight from work. to us take his son to a basketball game. if you're still having bladder leaks, it's time for a change. axonics therapy gave me my life back. it's not another pad or pill. it's amazing that a

then named diane sawyer. so the organizers said, you know, we want a national attention. and i'm not sure we could have been successful if he hadn't come down. now on this particular hike. he was accompanied by his fourth wife, cathy. she was just 23 and he was 67 when they married. now, that was pretty much scandalized. the social scene in washington, d.c., but not the environmentalists. and in fact, you know, cathy went on to law school and she went on to become a very occult environmental lawyer and philanthropist. both of which endeavors she continues today. now the press about the hike said that douglas was driven out town by armed men who didn't want to see now justice, telling them how to run their affairs. but here's his on the way home, he writes a letter to, president johnson, and he says, hold things up. maybe get a study. and then he immediately contacts old pal stu udall, who is secretary of the interior and the gorge dam was stopped. now, before i leave, douglas in the corridors of power and this is just one of many, many examples of when he lobbied with pre

larry: tonight, primetime, 8:00, matthew perry with diane sawyer interview followed by 20/20, and dot miss abc 7 news at 11:00. matthew perry really open up about his new memoir, "friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing." >> you can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season. when i'm carrying wait, it's alcohol. when i'm skinny, it is pills. >> he writes about the scenes that remind him how he was just barely holding on. he needed the pills to function, but the pills destroy appetite and cause deep nausea. i asked him if it was ok for us to look at one of those scenes together. >> sure. >> a scene in which he is painfully thin, shirt hanging off his body. >> i know that hat. i was taken aboard that hat. they did experiments on me. i cannot have children. of course, it is very hard to watch that. because i feel so sorry for that guy. that's a guy that is out of control. i did not know what was going on with me. i weighed 155 pounds, on my way to 128 pounds. i felt too sorry for that guy. he's going through too much, and it's me, and i rememb

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karina: coming up tonight, it is matthew perry, the diane sawyer interview, followed by "20/20" at 9:d don't miss abc 7 news at 11:00. and our latest abc 7 special, you don't want to miss it. it highlights some of the spookiest spots, including, of course, alcatraz island. just open up the abc 7 bay area streaming tv app and go to the new and popular rogue to stream it now. dan: finally, a few thoughts about what really matters. we wish all the best and full and speedy recovery for paul pelosi after that despicable attack at his san francisco home. the assailant reportedly yelling "where's nancy?" during the attack, apparently looking for paul's wife, the speaker of the house. the speaker was in washington with her security detail when it happened. we are still learning more about the accused attacker, his ground, his mental state, but his actions undoubtedly fueled by the violent and incendiary rhetoric that has divided the country and dominated social media and the cable news talk shows in recent years. the january 6 insurrection at the capitol is the product of the current politica

also, diane sawyer with an exclusive interview with matthew perry.alking about at -- his addiction battle, and his friends who reached out. were talking about homecoming. florida a&m university. talking how the family does a right. that and so much more, coming up on gma. >> guess what? our very own kumasi is there. as an alum. >> she is. >> guess what else? >> i can't wait to follow her social media adventures did she is already on there. quincy you don't have to go on social media, she will be on gma tomorrow. >> ok. yes. i'll just look on the tv. >> shall be there. i'll be covering it. i'm super excited. >> good for them. >> that energy of those college games. it is a lot. next go ahead. >> you have all the energy. also, i think we collectively feel the same way about the sink. we can hear it in the tone. >> the sink. >> the sink. it was a dad joke. i didn't see coming. it was a really elaborate data joke. >> is like, it's great demonstration speech. you know russian mark he really get literal red with what you are going to bring in, or, you bring

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. >> diane sawyer.ple like me. >> you were on methadone, xanax, full quart of vodka a day. >> uh-huh. >> you said there were six friends, one of them was sick. >> yeah. >> announcer: the diane sawyer interview. >> it was important to me to do something that would help people. >> announcer: friday night at 8:00, 7:00 central on abc. ♪ you shook me all night long ♪ >>> back on "gma," and this morning with chris connelly we're going back in black with the frontman of the legendary hard rock band, ac/dc, brian johnson has written a new memoir, "the lives of brian," and, chris, you had a chance -- i saw you doing a little air guitar. >> i did a little air guitar, but, you know. >> yeah, baby. >> only so much you can do there, robin. with a cap, a grin and rock star roar, singer brian johnson's voice has powered ac/dc and its louder, loudest hit since 1980. you know the songs but you might not know his story. his new memoir looks to change all that so at his florida home we talked about his miraculous rise an

assistant organizing the researching and writing of his memoirs working with ken khichigan and diane sawyer. frank received his bs from the georgetown university school of foreign service a master's from the london school of economics and a phd from oxford. ladies and gentlemen, would you please join me in welcoming dwight chapin and frank cannon? okay. good evening. ladies and gentlemen. what a great great group we have here. i want to thank you all for coming. this obviously is a huge occasion for me, and i am really honored to have frank here asking the questions. so we hope you enjoy it. we're going to have some q&a at the end and be thinking of any questions you might have as you listen to us. frank well again, thank you for being here and helping to launch dwight's a superb hook. it's quite a story. it's ranges over a whole period of history and a whole period and whole gamut of emotions from this little plenty of ecstasy, but there's a lot of agony. it's sort of goes from the kansas to the white house to t history and a whole gamut of emotions from a period of ecstasy but also a lot

nixon's chief editorial assistant, organizing the research and writing of his memoirs, working with diane sawyer. frank received his bs from the school of foreign service, a masters from the london school of economics, and a ph. d. from oxford. and will you please join me in welcoming them. [applause] >> what a great group we have today. i want to thank you all for coming, and this obviously is a huge occasion for me. i am really honored to have frank here asking the questions. we hope you enjoy, it and we're going to do a q&a at the end. and be thinking of any questions you may have as you are listening to it. >> thank you for being here and helping to launch the super book. it's quite a story. it ranges over a whole period of history and a whole gamut of emotions from a period of ecstasy but also a lot of agony from kansas to the white house, to the forbidden city, to the federal correctable institutions. it's a book for all seasons in a book for young people who are contemplating beginning a career, and thinking about public service and for older people who are older and analyzing life choice

was the one who introduced people like leslie stahl and connie chung goo the top ranks of cbs, diane sawyer. yeah. >> host: there's a poetic irony in the book. your beginnings were mr.ow's conclusions and you in some many ways became his legacy at cbs news. the last correspondent personally hired by murrow in 1957, and you were a newcomer what turned out -- in what turned out to be his final broadcast, the year-end aroundup of 1960 called years of crises. her invite outside join him when he became director of usia in the kennedys a, and the most poignant response you said you needed to carry on his work in journalism and you did. and in fact, the book begins and ends with murrow if have you consciously felt this sense of irony, being their hand-picked, hand-select as the final laster day murrow boy? >> guest: that is a question i can answer from the current vantage point. i can answer now because i'm able to look back. at the time it was happening, i knew that he was special, he was for me an idol. i listened to his 7:45 newscast every night. i watched his broadcasts. his broadcasts bringin

diane sawyer. yeah. >> marvin, there's a poetic irony in the book. your beginnings were morrow's conclusions and you in so many ways became his legacy at cbs news, you are the last correspondence personally hired by morrow in 1957 and you were a newcomer in what turned out to be his final broadcast the year and round up of 1960 yyears of crisis. he invited you to join him when he became director of usia and the kennedy administration and in the most poignant response you said you needed to carry on his s work in journalism and so you did. and in fact, the book begins and ends with morrow. >> had you consciously felt this sense of irony of being there hand-picked, hand selected as the final latter day tomorrow boy? >> is the question i can answer on the current vantage point. i can answer it now because i'm able to look back. at the time it was happening, i knew that he was special. he was for me and i'll. i listened to his 7:45 newscast every night. i watched his broadcasts. his broadcast bringing down senator mccarthy who was one of the most histori

on friday so many watched as he took diane sawyer through his isolating addiction battle.ple will read this story, and it will hopefully help a lot of people. >> what's the biggest thing you hope people get out of it? >> well, that they learn that the disease doesn't, doesn't care where it goes. you know, people, there's a stigma attached to it, and that's got to end, and hopefully me telling my story will help that stigma end. >> we were talking about this at breakfast yesterday with my family. what's the hardest part about getting sober? is iemotionaor physical? >> it's the emotional and it's the physical. it's obsession of your mind. and a physical -- the part that's an allergy to the body, so what basically happens is you have a drink because you're obsessed with having a drink and then your body goes, oh, you activated us, so let me have a lot more, so the alcoholic is in charge of the first drink but after that there's no telling what they'll do. >> now you're sponsoring a few folks in recovery. i imagine that's a very meaningful experience. >> yes, what's interestin