The Real Reason Matthew Perry and Julia Roberts Broke Up

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In his caller memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry revealed wherefore helium broke up with Julia Roberts aft their two-month romance successful the ‘90s.

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Matthew Perry is an unfastened publication erstwhile it comes to his past relationships. 

The Friends alum got candid successful his forthcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, astir his erstwhile two-month romance with Julia Roberts.

In an excerpt obtained by U.K. paper The Times, Perry, 53, revealed that the 2 started dating soon aft Roberts, 54, signed on to impermanent prima connected the ‘90s NBC sitcom. However, helium wrote that the Pretty Woman actress "would lone bash the amusement if she could beryllium successful my communicative line," adding that helium "had to woo her."

Perry said helium sent Roberts 3 twelve roses and a enactment that read, "The lone happening much breathtaking than the imaginable of you doing the amusement is that I yet person an excuse to nonstop you flowers."

The brace past began "a three-month-long courtship" by sending each different faxes, and their platonic narration rapidly evolved into a romanticist one. 

The 17 Again actor elaborate gathering Roberts' parents for the archetypal time when the histrion flew him to Taos, New Mexico, to ring successful the New Year with her and her family. Right earlier the timepiece struck midnight, Roberts took Perry to a peculiar spot to get a bully presumption of the city.

"We jumped successful this large bluish motortruck and drove up a mountain, snowfall swirling around," helium wrote. "Eventually we reached a mountaintop, and for a infinitesimal the upwind cleared, and we could spot New Mexico and beyond, each the mode backmost to Canada. As we sat there, she made maine consciousness similar the king of the world. A gentle snowfall was falling, and with that, 1996 began."

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However, Perry soon let his ain thoughts get the champion of him, ending his relationship with Roberts two months later.

"Dating Julia Roberts had been excessively overmuch for me," helium admitted. "I had been perpetually definite that she was going to interruption up with me. Why would she not? I was not enough; I could ne'er beryllium enough; I was broken, bent, unlovable. So alternatively of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beauteous and superb Julia Roberts."

Perry's memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing will beryllium disposable Nov. 1.

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