Matthew Perry opens up in his new ebook about an odd preoccupation with hating 'The Matrix' icon, Keanu Reeves.
It seems that Buddies actor Matthew Perry 53, isn’t precisely “pals” with everybody — he reportedly reveals an aversion to fellow star Keanu Reeves in his new memoir Buddies, Lovers and the Huge Horrible Factor. “Why is it that the unique thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, however Keanu Reeves nonetheless walks amongst us?” an excerpt from the ebook, which is poised to hit cabinets November 1, reads. Matthew and Keanu each had a private tie to River — Per Web page Six, Keanu and River had been shut friends, whereas Matthew starred with the late actor in 1988’s A Night time within the Lifetime of Jimmy Reardon. River famously died in 1993 at a Hollywood membership on the age of 23, and Matthew expressed his grief on the loss. “River was a phenomenal man in and out and too stunning for this world, it turned out,” he reportedly wrote. “It all the time appears to be the actually proficient guys who go down.”
Whereas getting issues off his chest within the memoir, Matthew, who just lately revealed a serious battle with drug habit, additionally zeroed in on the loss of life of 33-year-old Saturday Night time Stay comic Chris Farleyin 1997. “I punched a gap by Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall once I discovered,” he wrote. “Keanu Reeves walks amongst us.” Matthew and Chris co-starred within the 1998 film Virtually Heroes, launched after the comic’s loss of life.
The odd preoccupation with The Matrix icon comes on the heels of a beforehand launched excerpt that exposed a harmful facet to his previous drug habit. Matthew claims his household was instructed he had a 2% likelihood of dwelling after being hospitalized for a gastrointestinal perforation simply 4 years in the past. His colon had burst from the overuse of opioid drugs. “I wished to share once I was protected from going into the darkish facet of every thing once more,” Matthew instructed PEOPLE earlier in October. “I needed to wait till I used to be fairly safely sober — and away from the energetic illness of alcoholism and habit — to write down all of it down. And the primary factor was, I used to be fairly sure that it could assist folks.”