'I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,' Matthew Perry, 53, says. Photos: Handout, Matthew Perry/Instagram
Friends star Matthew Perry issued an apology after questioning why “Keanu Reeves still walks among us” in his new memoir.
An excerpt from the upcoming book was published this week by Variety in which Perry asks why Reeves is alive while “original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die.”
“I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,” Perry, 53, told People in his apology Wednesday (Oct 26). “I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologise. I should have used my own name instead.”
Reeves, known for starring in film franchises such as The Matrix and John Wick, has not publicly commented.
Perry, who played the witty Chandler Bing on Friends, chronicles his lengthy battle with substance abuse in the memoir, titled Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible Thing.
He was given a two per cent to survive after his colon burst as a result of opioid use, Perry told People.
“I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs,” Perry said. “And that’s called a Hail Mary. No one survives that.”
Perry also writes in the memoir, out Nov 1, that he took hydrocodone all night before an operation to treat a stomach issue, then received an anesthetic from his surgeon that caused his heart to stop for five minutes, according to Rolling Stone. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
