According to Matthew Perry, his memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, which was published last fall, will not include any of the offensive comments he made about Keanu Reeves.

Last year, when he questioned why Reeves “still walks among us” in light of the untimely deaths of contemporaries like Chris Farley and River Phoenix, the 53-year-old Friends actor drew criticism and apologized.

During his appearance on a panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday at USC’s Bovard Auditorium, the Williamstown, Massachusetts native stated that “any future versions of the book will not have his name in it.”

While promoting the book during the event, Perry, who portrayed Chandler Bing in the NBC series, bemoaned the error.

Perry stated that he has “apologised publicly to” the John Wick actor, saying, “I said a stupid thing… it was a mean thing to do.”

The most recent: 53-year-old Matthew Perry claims that critical comments he wrote about Keanu Reeves in his memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which was published last fall, will not be included in subsequent editions. photographed during USC’s LA Times Festival of Books

According to Perry, he decided to leave out the remarks regarding Reeves because the actor lives next door.

“I chose his name because we live on the same street,” Perry claimed, adding that he hasn’t apologized to Reeves directly for the remarks but would if given the chance.

“I’ll apologize if I run into the guy—it was just dumb,” he remarked.

Perry mentioned Reeves in the book published this past November when discussing Phoenix’s death on October 31, 1993. Phoenix was the character opposite Reeves in 1991’s My Own Private Idaho.

“River was a beautiful man on the inside and out—too beautiful for this world, it turned out,” Perry wrote.

“The guys with the most talent always seem to lose.” Why does Keanu Reeves continue to live among us when the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger pass away?

In his reflection on Chris Farley’s death by overdose in December 1997, Perry made a second reference to Reeves.

“When I learned,” he recalled, “I punched a hole through Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall.” Among us is Keanu Reeves.

Perry raised eyebrows last year and issued an apology after he asked why Reeves ‘still walks among us’ when peers such as River Phoenix and Chris Farley had died prematurely. Reeves was pictured earlier this month in LA

“Any future versions of the book will not have his name in it,” the Williamstown, Massachusetts native stated during a panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday at USC’s Bovard Auditorium.

Perry apologized for the allusions to Reeves in his book amid criticism. “I’m a huge fan of Keanu,” he declared in a statement. I made the error of picking a name at random. I’m sorry. Instead, I ought to have gone by my own name.

The A-lister “thought the comments came out of left field,” according to a source close to Reeves who told US Weekly, adding, “It’s kind of backfired on Matthew anyway, which is why he had to apologize.”

According to the Irish Times, Reeves has referred to Phoenix as one of his “closet friends of that era,” but Perry also had a close relationship with the up-and-coming star following the future TV mainstay’s feature film debut opposite him in 1988’s A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.

In his memoir, Perry traces another alleged swipe at Reeves and explains how their time together while making the picture in Chicago helped forge a close friendship.

It came out that River was a very attractive man who was too lovely for this planet. He comments, “The truly talented guys always seem to go down.”

Per Perry, Phoenix ‘heard the screams from my apartment; went back to bed; woke up to the news.’ Phoenix famously died outside the Viper Room in West Hollywood from a mixed drug overdose of heroin and cocaine.

He went on to say that after finding out of his friend’s passing, he started crying uncontrollably.

However, Perry’s teasing of Reeves extended beyond their shared affinity for Phoenix.

Perry had a tight relationship with Phoenix, despite Reeves referring to him as one of his “closet friends of that era,” following his feature film debut opposite Phoenix in 1988’s A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon; Phoenix and Reeves in My Own Private Idaho

In another aside, he attacked the John Wick star while talking about his late friend Chris Farley, who overdosed on drugs in 1997 at the age of 33 after taking a stimulant (cocaine) with a depressant (morphine), a combination that was identical to the speedball that killed Phoenix.

In the year after Farley’s passing, Perry and Farley costarred in the highly criticized comedy Almost Heroes, which was directed by Christopher Guest.

“When I learned [about Farley’s death], I punched a hole through Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall,” he says, adding, “Keanu Reeves walks among us.”

In his memoir and recent interviews, Perry discussed his lengthy history of drug use in addition to his complaints about other performers, which may have contributed to the grief of Phoenix, Ledger, and Farley’s deaths.

He disclosed earlier this month in an interview with People that his opiate addiction caused his colon to burst when he was 49. He had a two percent chance of surviving, according to doctors, and the medical emergency put him in a coma for two weeks before he spent further months in the hospital.

He acknowledged going to rehab 15 times over the years in an attempt to overcome his heroin addiction, and he needed 14 surgeries to help repair all of the damage to his abdomen.