Matthew Perry Apologizes to Keanu Reeves Over Apparent Memoir Diss

The one where Matthew Perry attempts to make amends. After an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, was released—in which Perry questioned why “Keanu Reeves still walks among us” as he reflected on a few deaths including River Phoenix and Heath Ledger—the Friends star has issued an apology. “I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,” the actor told People in an Oct. 26 statement. “I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.” In Perry’s personal memoir, in which he shares details of his addiction battle, the actor first mentioned the John Wick star when reflecting on the legacy of Phoenix. (Phoenix, who co-starred with Perry in the film, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, died of a drug overdose in 1993). “River was a beautiful man, inside and out—too beautiful for this world, it turned out,” a section of his memoir reads. “It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down. Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”