Matthew Perry to remove Keanu Reeves references from future editions of memoir

Matthew Perry said Saturday that he plans to remove Keanu Reeves’ name from future editions of his 2022 memoir “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” which detailed his struggle with addiction after dissing the actor several times in the book

Perry, 53, made the apology when the “Friends” star appeared at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

“I said a stupid thing. It was a mean thing to do,” Perry said according to the LA Times. “I pulled his name because I live on the same street. I’ve apologized publicly to him. Any future versions of the book will not have his name in it.” 

“If I run into the guy, I’ll apologize. It was just stupid,” continued Perry.

In Perry’s book, the “17 Again” actor states several times that Reeves is an actor who “still walks among us” even though “the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die.”

The Post reached out to Perry for comment.

Perry also reveals that he worked with the late River Phoenix — who was also close with Reeves — in the 1988 film “A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.”

The duo played best friends in the film and also became close until Phoenix’s death due to a drug overdose in 1993 at the age of 23.

Perry first issued an apology to Reeves, 58, In October 2022 saying that he was actually a very big fan of the actor’s work.

“I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,” Perry said in his October statement. “I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.”

A source close to the “Matrix” star also revealed that the actor was taken aback by Perry’s comments.

“Keanu thought the comments came out of left field,” a source told Us Weekly shortly after the book’s release. “It’s kind of backfired on Matthew anyway, which is why he had to apologize.”

Perry and Reeves have never had a public feud so the bizarre comments led to several people to speculate that “The Whole Nine Yards” actor had some weird obsession with him.

Other details covered in Perry’s explosive biography include the revelation that the actor suffered from impotence when he first attempted to have sex and that he harbored romantic feelings for his co-star Jennifer Aniston before she shut him down.

Perry also revealed that he’s not able to watch the hit NBC comedy because it forces him to relive his days of alcohol and drug addiction.

“I can’t watch the show, because I was brutally thin and being beaten down so badly by the disease,” said the actor who also claimed that he could tell which substance he was using during the show’s 10-year run.

“I could tell season by season by how I looked, and I don’t think anybody else can, but I certainly could,” the “Serving Sara” star said. “That’s why I don’t want to watch it because that’s what I see — that’s what I notice when I watch it.”