Matthew Perry apparently admitted in his memoir “Friends, Lovers and the Big Bad Thing”, which is due to be published on November 1, that he resents the much-loved actor Keanu Reeves.
The actor from the popular series “Friends” describes his struggles with addiction to alcohol and painkillers in the new book, and in one part of his confession he mentions his favorite Hollywood face, actor Keanu Reeves.
Perry mentioned Reeves earlier when he talked about death River Phoenix, with whom he starred in the film “A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon” from 1988. Phoenix and Reeves were close friends when the great talent Phoenix died of an overdose in 1993 at the age of 23. In his memoirs, Perry mentions another young actor whose addictions cost him his life, Heath Ledger.
“Why are geniuses like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger dead, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us,” Perry reportedly asks in a soon-to-be-released book.
Later in the book, Perry mentions and Chris Farleythe SNL star, who also died of an overdose, with whom he co-starred in the 1997 film Christopher Guest “Almost heroes”.
“I punched a hole in the locker room wall Jennifer Aniston when I found out,” he wrote before adding: “Keanu Reeves walks among us.”
It is unclear why Perry specifically mentions Reeves in his confession, since the two have never worked together, and it is not known that they have any personal ties.
Health problems
In the book, Perry also reveals that he almost died from an opioid overdose in 2018. The actor explained how he spent weeks fighting for his life after his colon ruptured as a result of a drug overdose. Perry publicly acknowledged at the time that he had undergone surgery to repair a gastrointestinal perforation. According to the report, he was in a coma for two weeks, in the hospital for five months and had to use a colostomy bag for nine months.
“The doctors told my family I had a 2 percent chance of living,” Perry told People in a recent interview. “They put me on a machine called ECMO, it’s a machine that breathes and keeps the heart beating. Almost no one survives it,” he said then.
The actor also says that he is now clean, and he shared tips that helped him leave his vices behind. “My therapist said, ‘Next time you think about taking OxyContin, just think about having a colostomy bag for the rest of your life,'” Perry recalled.
“A little window opened and I crawled through it and I don’t want OxyContin anymore.”
Perry’s memoir “Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing” should be published on November 1, reports NME.
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