Julia Roberts Sidesteps Matthew Perry Question On ‘The View’ While Remembering ‘Friends’ Super Bowl Appearance
deadline.comJulia Roberts breaks her silence on the passing of long-ago beau Matthew Perry in a new interview with ET, but sidestepped an apparent invitation to do the same on ABC’s The View today.
Roberts was on The View to promote her new Netflix film, Leave the World Behind, which, ironically enough, makes repeated allusions to Friends, the classic ’90s sitcom that starred Perry, who died at 54 of an apparent drowning in his hot tub on Oct.
28. Today, View co-host Sara Haines broached the subject by referencing Perry’s recent passing and asking Roberts to share her favorite memory of famously appearing in a 1996 post-Super Bowl episode of the sitcom. “As you know Matthew Perry has recently passed,” Haines said. “Do you have a favorite memory of your time with Friends?” Roberts responded that, as a “football fanatic,” to appear “on the Super Bowl episode made me feel that much closer to the Super Bowl, which I’ve never been to.” View moderator Whoopi Goldberg then invited Roberts to attend this season’s Super Bowl, and the Friends moment passed.
In the Entertainment Tonight interview posted today, Roberts, asked about Perry, said, “The sudden passing of anybody so young is heartbreaking.
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