Matthew Perry appears to have an issue with the man widely deemed as the nicest guy in Hollywood, Keanu Reeves.
Despite being one of the most successful actors in the industry, 58-year-old Reeves has evidently not let it get to his head. Indeed, there have been countless stories about his kind gestures and gentlemanly ways.
But one person the John Wick star apparently hasn't won round is 53-year-old Friends alum, Perry.
In his memoir, Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing, Perry talks about Stand by Me actor River Phoenix's fatal drug overdose in 1993.
"Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?" Perry writes, per Page Six.
"River was a beautiful man inside and out and too beautiful for this world, it turned out. It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down."
Elsewhere in the autobiography, Perry takes aim at Reeves again, this time while discussing the passing of actor and comedian Chris Farley.
"I punched a hole through Jennifer Aniston's dressing room wall when I found out," he writes. "Keanu Reeves walks among us."
While this is the first time most have heard of Perry's antagonistic feelings towards Reeves, it's less surprising that the 17 Again star had written about actors who'd died from drug overdoses, given that he himself had a near-fatal reliance on drugs.
In his book, Perry speaks candidly about how he had nearly died as a result of his addiction to drugs and alcohol. And in a recent interview with The New York Times, the actor, who recently celebrated 18 months of sobriety, revealed that he had spent a staggering $9 million trying to get clean.
Perry had previously opened up about almost dying from an opioid addiction, with his reliance on drugs leaving him with a 2% chance of survival after opioids caused his colon to burst and rendered him comatose for two weeks.
"I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again," the actor said, adding: "I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober — and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction — to write it all down."
His memoir - which will hit shelves next month - begins by recounting an occasion several years ago when, at the age of 49, Perry almost died after his colon burst from opioid overuse.
"The doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live. I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. And that's called a Hail Mary. No one survives that," he said.
"There were five people put on an ECMO machine that night and the other four died and I survived," the star added.
Perry explained that after being taken off the ECMO machine, he still had a long road to recovery, and had to use a colostomy bag for nine months. He also revealed that as a result of his decades of addiction struggles, he has had 14 surgeries on his stomach and been to rehab 15 times.
Perry's memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is set to hit bookshelves on November 1, 2022.
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