35-year-old actor Joshua Michael Peck widely known as Josh Peck has released his first book, "Happy People Are Annoying."
Peck became widely known during his time as Josh Nichols on the very popular show "Drake and Josh."
Peck has had many roles since his days as Josh Nichols from 2004-2007, especially recently. Roles include the 2012 film, "Red Dawn", the 2021-present tv series "Turner and Hooch," and the 2022-Present tv series "How I Met Your Father."
Peck also has a YouTube channel with over 3 million subscribers.
Now, Peck, is opening up like never before in his new memoir where he speaks on his lifelong struggles with food and substance addictions.
“I felt like my life was at this inflection point,” Peck told Forbes about the decision to write a memoir in March 2002. “I had spent over twenty years working at this profession that I thought defined me. I started when I was 10, so I literally thought it was my identity. I had never been anything other than a working actor.”
He continued: “But over those twenty years, I also lost 100 pounds, got sober from drugs and alcohol, started a whole new career in social media when showbiz had stalled out on me. I got married, had a child and faced the way I viewed happiness.”
Peck got sober in 2008. “I don’t speak in absolutes because I’ve known too many people whose life got too good too quickly and suddenly a drink didn’t sound that bad anymore. So, in sticking with the whole one day at a time of it all, I cannot guarantee that I will die sober, but I can guarantee that I will go to sleep tonight without a drink” Peck noted.
In his book, Peck reflects on his battle with substance abuse. "Drugs lifted the pain of existence so well that I mistook being high for being alive," he recalled. "I’d finally found a kind of medicine that night. It was a medicine I’d been searching for my entire life, a cure that allowed me to be me. Not the me that was worried about what you thought, it was the me I had always wanted to project."
"For four years I didn’t take a sober breath except the time between waking up and locating whatever mindaltering substance was closest," he wrote.
The star also recalled getting fired from a Judd Apatow Film. "I showed up late, was less than professional when it came to my preparation, and inevitably was just a liability...I shanked the opportunity that could have changed my life," he wrote. "Judd couldn’t have been cooler, he took a shot on me and I ruined it. I was a drug addict who couldn’t get it together long enough to show up for my responsibilities. I’ve told him this to his face but I’m still incredibly sorry fifteen years later."
Pecks novel was released on March 15th and can be purchased anywhere you buy books :)
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