Matthew Perry has issued an apology after excerpts from his upcoming memoir had been launched that take a swipe at actor Keanu Reeves.
“I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,” Perry stated in an announcement to our sister web site Deadline. “I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.”
In an excerpt from the Friends star’s memoir, titled Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (resulting from be launched subsequent Tuesday), Perry laments the premature deaths of gifted actors like River Phoenix, who Perry labored with on 1988’s A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon: “Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”
Later in the ebook, Perry recollects listening to that his Almost Heroes costar Chris Farley had died of a drug overdose: “I punched a hole through Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall when I found out. Keanu Reeves walks among us.”
Perry’s memoir additionally particulars his personal lengthy wrestle with drug habit, together with a number of moments the place he almost misplaced his life to the illness. He’s set to sit down down with ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer for an hour-long interview particular airing this Friday at 8/7c on ABC.
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