Matthew Perry will remove Keanu Reeves' name from future editions of addiction memoir after facing backlash
foxnews.comMatthew Perry is taking a step in the right direction by removing a few choice words he used against Keanu Reeves in his November memoir about addiction and recovery, "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing." During a sit-down chat at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday, the 53-year-old actor admitted he may have made a mistake referring to the "John Wick" star in a negative light, and he's righting his wrongs.
In his book, the "Friends" star questioned how Reeves "still walks among us," while "the really talented guys" died, such as River Phoenix and Chris Farley. "I said a stupid thing.
It was a mean thing to do," Perry said during a panel moderated by Matt Brennan. Perry wrote in the tome, "River [Phoenix] was a beautiful man, inside and out — too beautiful for this world, it turned out.
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?" He added more fuel to the fire with another line, "His disease had progressed faster than mine had. (Plus, I had a healthy fear of the word 'heroin,' a fear we did not share).
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