Matthew Perry Reveals His Hatred For Keanu Reeves In New Ebook – Hollywood Life

It seems that Associates actor Matthew Perry 53, isn’t precisely “mates” with everybody — he reportedly reveals an aversion to fellow star Keanu Reeves in his new memoir Associates, Lovers and the Huge Horrible Factor. “Why is it that the unique thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, however Keanu Reeves nonetheless walks amongst us?” an excerpt from the guide, which is poised to hit cabinets November 1, reads. Matthew and Keanu each had a private tie to River — Per Web page Six, Keanu and River had been shut friends, whereas Matthew starred with the late actor in 1988’s A Evening within the Lifetime of Jimmy Reardon. River famously died in 1993 at a Hollywood membership on the age of 23, and Matthew expressed his grief on the loss.  “River was a gorgeous man inside and outside and too lovely for this world, it turned out,” he reportedly wrote. “It all the time appears to be the actually gifted guys who go down.”

Whereas getting issues off his chest within the memoir, Matthew, who not too long ago revealed a serious battle with drug dependancy, additionally zeroed in on the dying of 33-year-old Saturday Evening Stay comic Chris Farley in 1997. “I punched a gap by Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall after I discovered,” he wrote. “Keanu Reeves walks amongst us.” Matthew and Chris co-starred within the 1998 film Virtually Heroes, launched after the comic’s dying.

The odd preoccupation with The Matrix icon comes on the heels of a beforehand launched excerpt that exposed a harmful aspect to his previous drug dependancy. Matthew claims his household was informed he had a 2% likelihood of dwelling after being hospitalized for a gastrointestinal perforation simply 4 years in the past. His colon had burst from the overuse of opioid drugs. “I wished to share after I was secure from going into the darkish aspect of the whole lot once more,” Matthew informed PEOPLE earlier in October. “I needed to wait till I used to be fairly safely sober — and away from the energetic illness of alcoholism and dependancy — to write down all of it down. And the primary factor was, I used to be fairly sure that it might assist folks.”