The actor from the popular series "Friends" Matthew Perry has promised to remove the malicious comment about co-star Kean Reeves from the next editions of his autobiography.
The star, who appeared on the small screen in the role of Chandler Bing in the American sitcom, wrote several comments about his colleague in the memoir entitled "Friends, Lovers and the Big Awful Thing".
He twice wondered why Reeves was "still with us" when "talented" actors like River Phoenix had died.
"I wrote nonsense and it was bad of me," Perry admitted.
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"I mentioned him because we live on the same street. I publicly apologize to him," he said in an interview with Los Angeles Times Book Festival.
"Subsequent versions of the book will not have those sentences that mention his name," he added.
The actor said that he did not apologize to his colleague in private.
"If we meet - I will definitely apologize because it was very stupid of me."
In a memoir published last year, Matthew Perry looks back on the addiction and struggle with drug use that accompanied his career.
In the book, Perry describes Phoenix, a colleague with whom he made the film A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon from 1988 as a genius who was "ahead of his time".
"River is a bipo wonderful man inside and out, too wonderful for this world, it turns out. It's always the talented people who leave first."
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Phoenix died in 1993 at the age of 23 after an overdose of cocaine and heroin.
Heath Ledger died of an overdose of prescription drugs in 2008.
Perry has already apologized for the message about Reeves and said he took the name of the actor from the movie series John Wick without any reason and added that he is "a big fan".
"I apologize, I should have used my own name," he wrote announcement published in People magazine in October 2022.
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