Matthew Perry Apologizes to Keanu Reeves Over Apparent Memoir Diss

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Matthew Perry SHADES Keanu Reeves successful New Memoir

The 1 wherever Matthew Perry attempts to marque amends.
 
After an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, was released—in which Perry questioned wherefore "Keanu Reeves inactive walks among us" arsenic helium reflected connected a fewer deaths including River Phoenix and Heath Ledger—the Friends star has issued an apology.
 
"I'm really a large instrumentality of Keanu," the histrion told People successful an Oct. 26 statement. "I conscionable chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should person utilized my ain sanction instead."
 
In Perry's idiosyncratic memoir, successful which helium shares details of his addiction battle, the histrion archetypal mentioned the John Wick prima erstwhile reflecting connected the bequest of Phoenix. (Phoenix, who co-starred with Perry successful the film, A Night successful the Life of Jimmy Reardon, died of a drug overdose successful 1993).
 
"River was a beauteous man, wrong and out—too beauteous for this world, it turned out," a conception of his memoir reads. "It ever seems to beryllium the truly talented guys who spell down. Why is it that the archetypal thinkers similar River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves inactive walks among us?"

"River was a amended histrion than me; I was funnier," helium continued. "But I surely held my ain successful our scenes—no tiny feat, erstwhile I look backmost decades later."
 
Elsewhere, Perry besides name-dropped Reeves arsenic helium recalled his ain absorption to the decease of Saturday Night Live star Chris Farley, who passed distant successful 1997.

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"His illness had progressed faster than excavation had. (Plus, I had a steadfast fearfulness of the connection ‘heroin,' a fearfulness we did not share)," helium wrote. "I punched a spread done Jennifer Aniston's dressing country partition erstwhile I recovered out. Keanu Reeves walks among us. I had to beforehand ‘Almost Heroes' 2 weeks aft helium died; I recovered myself publically discussing his decease from drugs and alcohol. I was precocious the full time."

E! News has reached retired to Reeves' rep for comment.
 
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing volition beryllium released connected Nov. 1.

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