Matthew Perry will remove comments about Keanu Reeves in future editions of his memoir

[yami_no_hoshi]

Matthew Perry says his controversial comments about Keanu Reeves will be removed from future editions of his memoir: "It was a mean thing to do. I pulled his name because I live on the same street. I’ve apologized publicly to him." https://t.co/c2ZW5lddyL
- Variety (@Variety) April 24, 2023

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Comments

[kainee]

Even if he was just using Keanu's name because he was pulling it off the top of his head, shouldn't the editorial reviews and other scans have caught that shit? I mean, memoirs and biographies really should have a legal team look over them because they invite lawsuits if they're at all libelous. So, the publisher really should have caught that if Matthew Perry was too stupid to realize how dumb that comment was. I feel like that's a sign corners were cut and the book is gonna be shitty quality.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I've heard sometimes of people telling celebs "are you sure you want that in there?" cause they know certain things will catch attention or cause controversy so most celebs take the risk.

[kainee]

Yeah, so I'm kinda leaning towards the opinion he wrote that on purpose knowing that it was mean and now this is the PR cleanup. There ARE people who write/talk before they think through the consequences and I will believe them when they say that but this doesn't seem to read like that to me at all. It is ironic though because people could say the same sort of thing about him that he tried to imply about Keanu.

[champagnexdream]

He thought about it. He mentions Keanu twice

[takopoly]

Yeah, he definitely thought he was being funny, and his publisher probably did too. By all accounts Keanu is a great guy, so it seems like it was a deliberate "edgy" dick move. Glad it backfired.