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Matthew Perry has apologized for his death jibe to Keanu Reeves.
The Friends actor, 53, backtracked after it emerged he had written in his upcoming memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing about celebrity drug casualties: “Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”
He told People on Wednesday he should have replaced Reeves’ name with his own.
“I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,” he said. “I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.”
Perry made the remark about Reeves while discussing their mutual friend River Phoenix, who died in 1993 of a drug overdose at age 23, with the Friends actor forming a bond with the actor after he made his feature film debut opposite him in 1988’s A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.
“River was a beautiful man inside and out and too beautiful for this world, it turned out,” he said in his memoir. “It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down.”
Despite his apology, Perry also blasted Reeves in his book while addressing the death of his friend Chris Farley, who died in 1997 at age 33 of a drug overdose.
“I punched a hole through Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall when I found out (Chris had died)” – before adding: “Keanu Reeves walks among us.”
Perry also reveals in his book, out Nov. 1, how he was left with a two percent chance of surviving a burst colon after his years of alcohol and drug abuse, which led to his 15 stints in rehab before getting clean.
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