Matthew Perry has attempted to explain his weird comments about Keanu Reeves after probably realising a lot of people really love the John Wick actor.
The Friends star’s new memoir has been making headlines all week, but it was his unexpected hatred for Reeves that caused the biggest stir.
“Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?” he writes in the memoir, titled Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.
Perry wasn’t done there. While discussing the death of Saturday Night Live icon Chris Farley, who died of an overdose in 1997 aged 33, he got in another dig at Reeves.
“I punched a hole through Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall when I found out,” he writes. “Keanu Reeves walks among us.”
A lot of people – Reeves is an internet favourite after all – called out Perry’s comments, and the actor felt forced to release an apology statement.
“I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,” Perry said in the statement, as per Deadline. “I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologise. I should have used my own name instead.”
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So there you have it. Perry could have chosen any of our names as a placeholder for his hatred, but he just so happened to land on another world-famous actor.
Elsewhere in his new memoir, Perry talks about his decades-long battle with substance abuse; he recalls having to pull out of Don’t Look Up due to his heart stopping for several minutes; he also explains that his colon once burst from opioid use. It really does sound like a fascinating read, despite those Reeves comments.
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing is set for release on November 1st (pre-order here).
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