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Matthew Perry is now saying he misspoke in his new memoir.
There was backlash after shops shared an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, “Buddies, Lovers and the Massive Horrible Factor” by which Perry talks concerning the 1993 loss of life of his pal actor River Phoenix and references one other actor, Keanu Reeves.
“River was a fantastic man, inside and outside — too lovely for this world, it turned out. It all the time appears to be the actually proficient guys who go down,” Perry wrote. “Why is it that the unique thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, however Keanu Reeves nonetheless walks amongst us?”
Perry is now apologizing.
“I’m truly an enormous fan of Keanu. I simply selected a random identify, my mistake,” he stated in an announcement to Folks. ” I apologize. I ought to have used my very own identify as an alternative.”
CNN has reached out to Perry and Reeves for remark.