Matthew Perry said Saturday that he plans to remove Keanu Reeves’ name from future editions of his 2022 memoir “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” which detailed his struggle with addiction after dissing the actor several times within the book
Perry, 53, made the apology when the “Friends” star appeared on the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
“I said a silly thing. It was a mean thing to do,” Perry said in keeping with the LA Times. “I pulled his name because I survive the identical street. I’ve apologized publicly to him. Any future versions of the book won’t have his name in it.”
“If I run into the guy, I’ll apologize. It was just silly,” continued Perry.
In Perry’s book, the “17 Again” actor states several times that Reeves is an actor who “still walks amongst us” regardless that “the unique thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die.”
The Post reached out to Perry for comment.
Perry also reveals that he worked with the late River Phoenix — who was also close with Reeves — within the 1988 film “A Night within the Lifetime of Jimmy Reardon.”
The duo played best friends within the film and in addition became close until Phoenix’s death attributable to a drug overdose in 1993 on the age of 23.
Perry first issued an apology to Reeves, 58, In October 2022 saying that he was actually a really big fan of the actor’s work.
“I’m actually an enormous fan of Keanu,” Perry said in his October statement. “I just selected a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I must have used my very own name as a substitute.”
A source near the “Matrix” star also revealed that the actor was stunned by Perry’s comments.
“Keanu thought the comments got here out of left field,” a source told Us Weekly shortly after the book’s release. “It’s form of backfired on Matthew anyway, which is why he needed to apologize.”
Perry and Reeves have never had a public feud so the bizarre comments led to several people to take a position that “The Whole Nine Yards” actor had some weird obsession with him.
Other details covered in Perry’s explosive biography include the revelation that the actor suffered from impotence when he first attempted to have sex and that he harbored romantic feelings for his co-star Jennifer Aniston before she shut him down.
Perry also revealed that he’s not in a position to watch the hit NBC comedy since it forces him to relive his days of alcohol and drug addiction.
“I can’t watch the show, because I used to be brutally thin and being beaten down so badly by the disease,” said the actor who also claimed that he could tell which substance he was using throughout the show’s 10-year run.
“I could tell season by season by how I looked, and I don’t think anybody else can, but I definitely could,” the “Serving Sara” star said. “That’s why I don’t want to look at it because that’s what I see — that’s what I notice once I watch it.”
