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Matthew Perry reveals ‘mean’ remarks about Keanu Reeves will be removed from his memoir: ‘It was just stupid’-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro
The actor previously apologised following a backlash to the comments.
Matthew Perry is omitting the comments he made about Keanu Reeves from future editions of his book (Picture: Getty)
Matthew Perry has confirmed he will be removing his remarks about actor Keanu Reeves in future editions of his headline-grabbing memoir.
The Friends star released Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing, which is an unflinching look at his meteoric rise to fame on the hot US sitcom as well as his years-long battle against addiction.
However, what most readers weren’t expecting when they opened Perry’s book was a rather mean-spirited (and repeated) reference to Reeves.
Addressing the shock death of his friend Chris Farley from a overdose in 1988, as well as the untimely deaths of ‘original thinkers’ River Phoenix and Heath Ledger, the 53-year-old questioned why Reeves ‘still walks among us’.
Following backlash to his comments, Perry apologised and insisted he was ‘a big fan’ of the John Wick star and had just ‘chosen a random name’, adding: ‘I should have used my own name instead.’
Now he has clarified that it was a ‘stupid’ and ‘mean’ thing to do and revealed that those remarks will not make it into any future re-releases of his memoir.
The Friends star, who previously apologised for what he wrote, called the remarks ‘mean’ and ‘stupid’ while onstage at the Los Angles Times Festival of Books on Saturday (Picture: Getty)
Reeves has not publicly reacted, nor has Perry apologised to him in person (Picture: Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
‘I said a stupid thing. It was a mean thing to do,’ he told the Los Angeles Times at its Festival of Books.
‘I pulled his name because I live on the same street. I’ve apologised publicly to him.’
‘Any future versions of the book will not have his name in it,’ he added.
The star also admitted that he hadn’t actually made amends with Reeves in person but promised that if he ‘run[s] into the guy, I’ll apologise’, as he doubled down on it being ‘just stupid’.
Perry’s book Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing came out last year (Picture: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for GQ)
The Odd Couple actor also recently revealed that he finds it ‘painful’ to watch the show that gave him his career due to the ‘difficult situation’ he was in during production.
He told Jennifer Hudson on her chat show: ‘I watch it a little bit. I don’t watch it that much because sometimes it’s painful to watch because I was in a difficult situation and sometimes it’s tough to watch for me.
‘But I watch it sometimes, and it’s definitely funny.’
He also shared elsewhere how much it had meant to him that people ‘took the story into their hearts’ and were inspired to get help for themselves.
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He told E! News: ‘People have just loved it. I shied away from nothing and I told the truth and the biggest thing was, the goal was, to help people and I know of a lot of people already who have been helped by it.’
He added: ‘And we’ve already heard about five different people that have read it and then checked into rehab the next day.’
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