Matthew Perry has seen the error in his ways when it comes to dissing Keanu Reeves. While speaking at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Book on Saturday, the Friends actor vowed to remove Reeves’ name from future editions of his memoir “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.” The book was released in November of 2022 and chronicled Perry’s battle with addiction.
In multiple passages, Perry mentioned Reeves as an actor who “still walks among us” even as “the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die.” Perry did not elaborate further. “I said a stupid thing.
It was a mean thing to do,” Perry said at the book festival, as reported by the Los Angeles Times. “I pulled his name because I live on the same street.
I’ve apologized publicly to him. Any future versions of the book will not have his name in it.” He added that, “If I run into the guy, I’ll apologize.
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