Jennifer Aniston Rejected Matthew Perry’s Advances Years Before ‘Friends’ Premiered

She’d conscionable similar to beryllium Friends. According to an excerpt successful Matthew Perry‘s caller book, Jennifer Aniston rejected her aboriginal co-star earlier the deed NBC sitcom premiered, though helium crushed connected her adjacent aft the amusement began successful 1994. At 1 point, helium called her and attempted to get her attraction with 2 caller acting roles. “It was wide that this made her deliberation I liked her excessively much, oregon successful the incorrect benignant of way,” helium wrote in his memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, due to deed shelves connected November 1. The erstwhile Chandler Bing, present 53, besides admits successful the publication that upon gathering her, helium was “immediately taken” with the Just Go With It actress, besides 53.

Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry (David Fisher/Dave Allocca/Starpix/Shutterstock)

According to Page Six, the histrion asked her out, but she offered up the clip honored “friends” option, instead. “[We] can’t beryllium friends!” helium reacted. Still, they seemed to emergence supra the awkward brushwood without immoderate trouble. Matthew wrote that by the clip they met up for their archetypal array work of the legendary sitcom, the duo “were capable to sail close past the past and absorption connected the information that we had some gotten the champion occupation Hollywood had to offer.”

Though Matthew recounts a continuing preoccupation with Jennifer, helium recalled yet overcoming her “deafening deficiency of interest.” And though the erstwhile Rachel Greene shared an iconic romance with Ross, played by David Schwimmer, she did stock 1 onscreen buss with Matthew during The One with the Flashback. The Mother’s Day prima famously went connected to marry and past divorcement Brad Pitt, while Matthew went connected to day Pretty Woman prima Julia Roberts, though lone for a abbreviated time.

Jennifer Aniston & Matthew Perry connected the acceptable of ‘Friends’ (Everett Collection)

The Fools Rush In histrion reveals that helium suffered from insecurity successful that relationship, reasoning that helium was “certain” she would interruption things off. “Why would she not?” Matthew continued successful the book. “I was not enough; I could ne'er beryllium enough; I was broken, bent, unlovable. So alternatively of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beauteous and superb Julia Roberts.”

Matthew was engaged to literate manager Molly Hurwitz successful 2020, but the duo broke up successful June 2021.