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Matthew Perry went to rehab 15 times and spent about $9 million trying to get sober, and what finally makes him cry in this clip is someone telling him it isn't his fault. Psychologists actually tested why that matters. Back in 2013, a team at the University of British Columbia filmed 105 newly sober alcoholics describing the last time they drank, then tracked who relapsed over the next few months. The people whose shoulders slumped and chests caved in while they told the story were the ones who drank again, and they drank more when they did. How guilty people said they felt didn't predict anything. Jessica Tracy and Daniel Randles, who ran it, were measuring the difference between guilt and shame. Guilt is about something you did, so you can go do something different. Shame is about who you are, and you can't stop being yourself. So you look for a way to stop feeling it, and for an alcoholic that way is sitting in a bottle. Treatment people had suspected this for decades, and this study caught it on camera. That's what the counselor is doing here. Once the shame is off the table, Perry can actually look at what he did without needing a drink to get through looking at it. And Perry did a lot more looking than most people realize. His memoir counts 15 stints in rehab, 65 detoxes and something like 6,000 AA meetings. In 2013 he turned his Malibu beach house into a sober living home, and Hank Azaria says the night he walked into AA, Perry was the one who brought him. The "not your fault" part has real science behind it too. Twin and adoption studies put the genetic share of alcoholism risk at roughly half, and Perry's exposure started absurdly early. He wrote that a doctor put him on phenobarbital for colic when he was 30 days old, and that his baby photos show him nodding off like an addict at seven weeks. He was about 18 months sober on this book tour, and he died 11 months later. His ketamine clinic wouldn't raise his dose, and going around it was his call. The people he found treated him like a payday. One doctor texted "I wonder how much this moron will pay," then charged him $57,000 for ketamine that went for about $15 a vial. The dealer prosecutors called the Ketamine Queen sold the vials that killed him and got 15 years in April. Five people pleaded guilty to federal charges in his death. Shame feels like accountability to whoever's handing it out, and the UBC data says it's the exact feeling that sends people back to the bottle.

78-year-old Steven Tyler with Aerosmith at the second and final "Aerosmith & Friends" show last night at the Hollywood Bowl

New Olympic champion.. 😅

It’s already been a history-making FIFA World Cup for Team Canada and the best could be yet to come.❤️🇨🇦 olympic.ca/2026/06/19/how-ca…

Back in the 70s, American Airlines 747s had a fucking piano bar. You haven’t even experienced the miracle of flight until some drunk businessman who hates his life is plunking out Honky Cat at 35,000 feet.

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