When I failed to worship and flatter Friends actor Matthew Perry live on the BBC, I became hated by large numbers of people. Since he died, those numbers have grown.
My crime, before the court of modish public opinion, was to say that he could, if he wished, stop taking the drugs which wrecked his life and eventually killed him.
Anti-social media are infested with articles and remarks about how cruel and unfeeling I was. A new Netflix series on Mr Perry’s sad life will make this worse.
I have now decided to say to his supporters that he might now be alive
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