Matthew Perry is setting the record straight on his comments about Keanu Reeves.
In his new memoir “Friends, Lovers & The Big Terrible Thing,” the 53-year-old Friends star wrote some comments about Keanu which quickly went viral.
While discussing making the movie A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon where he played the best friend of River Phoenix’s character, Matthew reflected on River’s death after they made the film in 1993. River passed away due to an overdose.
Matthew wrote in the book:
“River was a beautiful man inside and out and too beautiful for this world, it turned out. It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down.
Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”
This passage was one of the two digs that Matthew made about Keanu in his memoir — and the internet did not take kindly to the things that Matthew said about Keanu.
Following the backlash he received online, Matthew released a statement to clarify what he meant. Here’s what he said:
“I’m actually a big fan of Keanu. I just chose a random name, my mistake.
I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.”
