Matthew Perry Admits He Shouldn’t Have Included Offensive Keanu Reeves Insult In Book

Matthew Perry finally addressed that Keanu Reeves insult he thoughtlessly included in his memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.” Turns out the way it reads isn’t how Perry means it.

Mean Keanu Reeves Insult Won’t Be Included In Upcoming Versions Of “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing”

Matthew Perry has just confirmed that the controversial line that name-dropped Keanu Reeves in his memoir will be cut from future versions of the book.

Perhaps he’d replace Reeves’ name with his own. This is coming after he apologized for the passage that references the “Matrix” and “John Wick” star.

“I said a stupid thing. It was a mean thing to do,” Perry said at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday. In October 2022, just as his memoir was about to hit the shelves, the “Friends” alum shared a statement that read, “I’m actually a big fan of Keanu. I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.”

If you haven’t read the book and don’t know what he said that was so wrong he had to release this statement to cushion the blow, here’s the passage that’s just plain inappropriate.

The excerpts that we clearly shouldn’t even be talking about are ones where the star was talking about his addiction problems and his struggle with alcohol. From there, he talked about how his former co-stars River Phoenix and Chris Farley died battling addition.

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As he discussed River Phoenix, who tragically passed in 1993, he wrote, “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?”

Putting two and two together, you’d think he meant that the world would rather be better off without Keanu Reeves than without Phoenix and Ledger. However, according to the explanation we later got from Perry himself, he didn’t mean it like that.

“I pulled his name because I live on the same street. … I’ve apologized publicly to him. Any future versions of the book will not have his name in it,” he said at the Los Angeles Times event.

He also revealed that he reached out to Reeves and apologized. So I guess all’s well if you’re willing to admit your fault and be big enough to apologize.

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