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Matthew Perry Will Remove Keanu Reeves’ Name From His Memoir: ‘I Said A Stupid Thing’

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Matthew Perry regrets using Keanu Reeves’ name in his memoir in a derogatory way.

The 53-year-old actor apologized for how he referred to Reeves in his tell-all 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” promising that any future editions of the book will have the name removed. 

“I said a stupid thing. It was a mean thing to do,” Perry said at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, according to the LA 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.” 

“If I run into the guy, I’ll apologize. It was just stupid,” the “Friends” star said.

Perry is referring to a section of the book when he discussed how it’s not fair that good men, like actors River Phoenix and Heath Ledger, die.

“River was a beautiful man, inside and out – too beautiful for this world, it turned out. It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down,” Perry wrote. “Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”

The actor also recalled working on the 1988 film “A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon” with Phoenix, who died from a drug overdose in 1993 at the age of 23. Reeves was also friends with Phoenix.

Perry previously apologized for using Reeves’ name in the memoir in October 2022.

“I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,” Perry said in his October statement. “I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.”

The “Friends” cast member made headlines when the memoir came out because it detailed his addiction to alcohol and drugs, including during his time on the hit NBC comedy. 

“There is a hell,” the actor wrote in the book, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “Don’t let anyone tell you different. I’ve been there; it exists; end of discussion.”

Perry said that he got to the point where he was taking 55 Vicodin a day in addition to drinking alcohol and taking Xanax.

“When you’re a drug addict, it’s all math. I wasn’t doing it to feel high or to feel good. I certainly wasn’t a partyer; I just wanted to sit on my couch, take five Vicodin and watch a movie,” he said. “That was heaven for me. It no longer is,” he said, adding that he spent more than $9 million on his journey to sobriety. 

The actor said the thing that got him to stop doing drugs was the thought of wearing a colostomy bag forever, which he had to do while recovering from a perforated colon. Perry said doctors at the time gave him a 2% chance of survival. 

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