“Why Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”: Matthew Perry should have apologized for an insult in his book

Earlier this week, and ahead of the release of his new memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” excerpts from the book were published by Variety Y The New York Postand both media shared statements where he talks about Keanu Reeves.

On one of the pages, Perry, 53, talks about his friendship with the late actor. river phoenix and writes: “He was a beautiful man, inside and out; he turned out to be too beautiful for this world. It always seems that the most talented are the ones who fall, ”he wrote of his passing. “Why do original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”

Perry made one of her first movies with River Phoenix, who died in 1993 at age 23 of an overdose outside the Viper Room nightclub.

But the “Friends” actor said he was wrong and apologized.

In a statement to the magazine PeoplePerry said, “Actually, I’m a big fan by Keanu. I chose a random name, it was my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.”

Reeves appears again in the post when Perry mentions the death of comedian Chris Farley, who also died of an overdose. His reaction was to think of Reeves. “I punched a hole in Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall when I found out.” And in that passage of the book, he repeats for the second time: “Keanu Reeves walks among us.”

The statement made in Perry’s book caused quite a stir on social media, with several celebrities tweeting in support of Reeves.

Lynda Carter He took to his Instagram account and wrote: “Come on… Keanu Reeves is like one of those frozen cakes. Nobody dislikes him!”

The actress of “West Side Story”, Rachel Zeglershared her support for Reeves, writing, “Personally delighted to have Keanu Reeves walking among us.”

Perry explained her decision to write her memoir now, available November 1. “I wanted to share when she was safe from re-entering the dark side,” she told the magazine. People. “I had to wait until I was sober to write it all down. And the main thing was to be able to help people.”

The unforgettable Chandler Bing of “Friends” confessed that he was in rehab about 15 times spending about $9 million in his healing, that he consumed 55 Vicodin pills a day and that he was only sober in only one of the ten seasons of the comedy. One of the consequences was that he spent two weeks in a coma with “2% chance of survival” after suffering a gastrointestinal perforation due to opioid abuse in 2018. When he had the opportunity to resume his career with a role alongside stars like Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio, his addictions ended up ruining his comeback in a production directed by Adam McKay.

“It doesn’t matter if you succeed or not, the disease doesn’t care”, admitted. Said health episode destroyed all his plans and he had to leave the movie “Don’t Look Up” in the middle of filming. He left that project and entered a rehabilitation center in Switzerland.

When he was in full treatment for his addictions, the actor lied to his doctors about a severe stomach ache so that they would prescribe a strong pain reliever. He took the opioid the night before he had surgery. The medication reacted with the anesthetic drug they gave him, a near lethal combination that caused his heart to stop beating.

“I was told that a burly man did not want the type of ‘Friends’ I died on his table and he did CPR on me for a full five minutes, beating my chest. If it hadn’t been in the series, would it have stopped after three minutes? dofriends did he save my life again?’”, he asks in one of the excerpts from his book, published by Rolling Stone.

Perry made it out alive but with eight broken ribs during the resuscitation process.

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