“I should have used my own name instead.”
Matthew Perryispivotingaway from some perplexing remarks he made aboutKeanu Reeves.
“I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,” Perry said in a statement toPEOPLE.
Matthew Perry; Keanu Reeves.Theo Wargo/Getty Images; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images
“I just chose a random name, my mistake.
I should have used my own name instead.”
“River was a beautiful man, inside and out too beautiful for this world, it turned out.
It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down,” Perry writes.
Representatives for Perry and Reeves did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
“I didn’t know how to stop,” he writes.
I couldn’t stop because the disease and the addiction is progressive.
So it gets worse and worse as you grow older."
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thingis out Nov. 1.
