Matthew Perry Reveals His Hatred For Keanu Reeves In New E-book – Hollywood Life

It seems that Mates actor Matthew Perry 53, isn’t precisely “associates” with everybody — he reportedly reveals an aversion to fellow star Keanu Reeves in his new memoir Mates, Lovers and the Massive 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 e-book, 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 Night time 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 lovely 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 lately revealed a serious battle with drug habit, additionally zeroed in on the demise of 33-year-old Saturday Night time Stay comic Chris Farley in 1997. “I punched a gap by way of Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall once 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 demise.

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 habit. Matthew claims his household was informed he had a 2% probability of residing after being hospitalized for a gastrointestinal perforation simply 4 years in the past. His colon had burst from the overuse of opioid drugs. “I needed to share once I was protected from going into the darkish aspect of every little thing once more,” Matthew informed PEOPLE earlier in October. “I needed to wait till I used to be fairly safely sober — and away from the lively illness of alcoholism and habit — to jot down all of it down. And the principle factor was, I used to be fairly sure that it will assist folks.”