Matthew Perry Says Most of His ‘Friends’ Costars ‘Won’t Care’ to Read His Memoir: ‘Why Would They?’

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The one that nobody read? Matthew Perry gets candid about the cast of Friends in his memoir — but he still doesn’t think they’ll read it. “Why would they read it?

I don’t know,” Perry, 53, told GQ in an interview published on Thursday, October 27. “Because, you know, who cares? Addicts are going to care about this, and fans of Friends are going to care about this.

But the cast is not going to really care about this.” The Fools Rush In actor starred as Chandler Bing in the hit NBC comedy from 1994 to 2004 opposite Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow.

While Perry says that none of his former castmates will take interest in his new book, titled Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, a source exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this week that Aniston, 53, is someone the 17 Again star has been able to lean on in the past. “She always took time to listen to him, even when she was busy or had her own issues to deal with,” the insider shared, noting that Perry feels like the “people who stood by him when the chips were down” — including the Morning Show actress — are the ones who “saved his life” and “gave him the will to carry on.”The Three to Tango actor, for his part, has been open about how Aniston checked in on him more than his other Friends costars over the years. “She was the one that reached out the most,” Perry told Diane Sawyer during his October 21 interview with ABC. “I’m really grateful to her for that.”The Breakup star was also the first person to confront the Massachusetts native about his drinking habits while they were shooting the hit sitcom. “Jen thought of the cast as her family.