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Matthew Perry Apologizes to Keanu Reeves After Memoir Diss
Matthew Perry is making a alteration to his memoir.
Six months aft Matthew issued a nationalist apology to Keanu Reeves for dissing him successful the book Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, the 17 Again prima shared that aboriginal copies volition not notation the John Wick actor's name.
"I said a anserine thing. It was a mean happening to do," Matthew said of the Keanu lines during a sheet astatine the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books connected April 22. "I pulled his sanction due to the fact that I unrecorded connected the aforesaid street. Any aboriginal versions of the publication volition not person his sanction successful it."
As seen successful excerpts of the publication released successful 2022, the Friends actor had mentioned Keanu portion reflecting connected a fewer deaths, including the passing of River Phoenix, who died of a drug overdose successful 1993, and of Chris Farley, who passed distant successful 1997.
"River was a beauteous man, wrong and out—too beauteous for this world, it turned out," a conception of his archetypal memoir read. "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?"
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After the excerpts were released, Matthew told People successful an Oct. 26 statement, "I'm really a large instrumentality of Keanu. I conscionable chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should person utilized my ain sanction instead."
During the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books event, Matthew said helium has yet to apologize to Keanu successful person. "If I tally into the guy, I'll apologize," helium added. "It was conscionable stupid."
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