Matthew Perry has had a change of coronary heart concerning his detrimental feedback about Keanu Reeves.
The Mates star, 53, instructed the group on the Los Angeles Instances Pageant of Books on Saturday that he’ll take away any point out of the John Wick actor from future editions of his revealing memoir, Mates, Lovers, and the Large Horrible Factor, which was launched final yr. Within the e-book, which recounts Perry’s struggles with habit and alcoholism, the actor questions why Reeves remains to be alive when different stars have died.
“I mentioned a silly factor. It was a imply factor to do,” Perry mentioned on the competition, the Los Angeles Instances reported. “I pulled his title as a result of I reside on the identical road. I’ve apologized publicly to him. Any future variations of the e-book is not going to have his title in it.”
Whereas he hasn’t apologized to Reeves in individual, Perry instructed festival-goers that “if I run into the man, I’ll apologize. It was simply silly.”
In his memoir, Perry made a jab at Reeves, 58, in a passage reflecting on the premature deaths of actors like River Phoenix, who died of a drug overdose in 1993.
“The record of geniuses who have been forward of their time is simply too lengthy to element right here — suffice to say, close to the highest of any such record needs to be my co-star in A Night time within the Lifetime of Jimmy Reardon, River Phoenix,” Perry wrote within the memoir, Selection reported on the time.
“It at all times appears to be the actually proficient guys who go down,” Perry continued. “Why is it that the unique thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, however Keanu Reeves nonetheless walks amongst us? River was a greater actor than me; I used to be funnier. However I actually held my very own in our scenes — no small feat, once I look again many years later.”
Later, he talked about Reeves a second time, when discussing the loss of life of one other former co-star, Chris Farley. Farley, with whom Perry starred in Virtually Heroes, died of an unintended overdose in 1997.
Perry shared how he “punched a gap by Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall once I discovered” in regards to the comic’s loss of life, including, “Keanu Reeves walks amongst us.”
After it grew to become public information that Perry shaded Reeves within the e-book, the Entire 9 Yards actor issued an apology.
In an announcement to Folks, he shared “I’m really an enormous fan of Keanu. I simply selected a random title, my mistake. I apologize. I ought to have used my very own title as an alternative.”
Regardless of his feedback about Reeves, Perry went on to say on the Pageant of Books occasion that he did his “finest to not go after anyone within the e-book. That wasn’t the purpose.” Sharing that he has been in remedy since age 18, he mentioned he “wished to guarantee that this wasn’t the type of e-book the place I blame individuals for the issues they did fallacious. You must give them credit score for the issues they did proper.”
