Matthew Perry apologises to Keanu Reeves over apparent memoir diss

The one where Matthew Perry attempts to make amends. After an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, was released – in which Perry questioned why "Keanu Reeves still walks among us" as he reflected on a few deaths including River Phoenix and Heath Ledger – the Friends star has issued an apology. "I'm actually a big fan of Keanu," the actor told People in a statement. "I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologise. I should have used my own name instead." In Perry's personal memoir, in which he shares details of his addiction battle, the actor first mentioned the John Wick star when reflecting on the legacy of Phoenix. "River was a beautiful man – too beautiful for this world, it turned out," a section of his memoir reads. "It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down. Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?" Elsewhere, Perry also name-dropped Reeves as he recalled his own reaction to the death of Saturday Night Live star Chris Farley.

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