Matthew Perry has retracted his shockingly negative feelings about Keanu Reeves and apologized for what he wrote in his upcoming memoir Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing. In the book, Perry, who recently described his history of drug addiction, writes: “Why do original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”
Following the reveal, the Friends star released a statement clarifying his comments saying, “I’m actually a huge fan of Keanu. ‘I just picked a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead. On the date, Perry seemed barely able to contain his hatred for the Matrix star, with whom he never seems to have collaborated, while discussing their mutual friend River Phoenix, who died in 1993 of a drug overdose at just 23 years old. .
Reeves has called Phoenix one of his “close friends from that time”, reports the Irish Times. Perry also had a strong connection to the rising star after the future TV mainstay made her film debut opposite him in 1988’s A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon. In her memoir, Perry describes how the time they spent shooting the movie in Chicago helped establish a strong bond, while also tagging another alleged hit on Reeves.
Perry writes: “River was a beautiful man inside and out and he turned out to be too beautiful for this world. It always seems like it’s the really talented kids who go down.” Phoenix died of a combined heroin and cocaine overdose outside the Viper Room in West Hollywood, and Perry writes that he ‘heard the screams from my apartment; he went back to bed; I woke up to the news. He added that he broke down in tears after learning that his friend had died.
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However, Perry and Reeves’ jabs weren’t limited to their mutual connection with Phoenix. He also slammed the John Wick star in another aside while discussing his late friend Chris Farley, who died in 1997 at the age of 33 from a drug overdose by combining a stimulant (cocaine) with a depressant (morphine), a similar concoction. to the speedball that killed Phoenix.