Matthew Perry Reveals Weird Hatred For Keanu Reeves In Candid New Book

It turns retired that Friends histrion Matthew Perry 53, isn’t precisely “friends” with everyone — helium reportedly reveals an aversion to chap prima Keanu Reeves successful his caller memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. “Why is it that the archetypal thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves inactive walks among us?” an excerpt from the book, which is poised to deed shelves November 1, reads. Matthew and Keanu some had a idiosyncratic necktie to River — Per Page Six, Keanu and River were adjacent pals, portion Matthew starred with the precocious histrion successful 1988’s A Night successful the Life of Jimmy Reardon. River famously died successful 1993 astatine a Hollywood nine astatine the property of 23, and Matthew expressed his grief astatine the loss.  “River was a beauteous antheral wrong and retired and excessively beauteous for this world, it turned out,” helium reportedly wrote. “It ever seems to beryllium the truly talented guys who spell down.”

Keanu Reeves (Rob Latour/Shutterstock)

While getting things disconnected his thorax successful the memoir, Matthew, who precocious revealed a large conflict with cause addiction, besides zeroed successful connected the decease of 33-year-old Saturday Night Live comedian Chris Farley in 1997. “I punched a spread done Jennifer Aniston’s dressing country partition erstwhile I recovered out,” helium wrote. “Keanu Reeves walks among us.” Matthew and Chris co-starred successful the 1998 movie Almost Heroes, released aft the comedian’s death.

Matthew Perry and the formed of ‘Friends.’ (Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection)

The unusual preoccupation with The Matrix icon comes connected the heels of a previously released excerpt that revealed a unsafe broadside to his past cause addiction. Matthew claims his household was told helium had a 2% accidental of surviving aft being hospitalized for a gastrointestinal perforation conscionable 4 years ago. His colon had burst from the overuse of opioid medications. “I wanted to stock erstwhile I was harmless from going into the acheronian broadside of everything again,” Matthew told PEOPLE earlier successful October. “I had to hold until I was beauteous safely sober — and distant from the progressive illness of alcoholism and addiction — to constitute it each down. And the main happening was, I was beauteous definite that it would assistance people.”