“I felt embarrassed, inadequate,” the veteran actor writes in his new memoir.
I would leave a word out, a line out.
Winkler continues, “My brain and I were in different zip codes.
Harry Winkler as Fonzie on ‘Happy Days’.Everett Collection
Meanwhile, the other actors would be waiting, staring at me: It was humiliating and shameful.
Everybody in the cast was warm and supportive, but I constantly felt I was letting them down.
When Winkler was diagnosed, “I was so f—ing angry,” he writes.
Henry Winkler.Amanda Edwards/Getty Images
“All the misery I’d gone through had been for nothing.
It wasn’t a way I decided to be!
And then I went from feeling this massive anger to fighting through it.”
TheBarrystar previously explained that he learned about his disability after his stepson was tested and evaluated for dyslexia.
Being Henry: The Fonz… and Beyondis out Oct. 31.
