Before the cameras ever began rolling on “Friends,” Matthew Perry already had a crush on Jennifer Aniston. In his new interview with Diane Sawyer for “ABC News,” Perry mentioned his memoir “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” and opened up concerning the time he requested Aniston out on a date. According to the actor, he met his future costar earlier than they have been each solid in “Friends,” however when he requested her out, she mentioned no, suggesting they be pals as a substitute.
Despite Aniston turning him down, Perry revealed he nonetheless had a crush on her when the present started filming — in addition to on Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox. This revelation prompted Sawyer to name the star a “serial crusher.” Perry replied, “Well, how are you going to not have a crush on Jenny? And Courteney [Cox]? And Lisa [Kudrow]? So I made it type of troublesome to go to work, as a result of I needed to faux that I did not have these crushes.”
In his memoir, the 53-year-old wrote about questioning how lengthy was too lengthy to stare at Aniston throughout a take. “I used to be like, ‘Is three seconds too lengthy?'” he mentioned to Sawyer. “And then I write within the gratitude half about her letting me do this.”
While his memoir focuses on heavy matters like his dependancy and winding street to sobriety, Perry can also be open about his romantic relationships. In addition to revealing his crushes on his feminine “Friends” costars, he additionally opened up about briefly relationship Julia Roberts and convincing her to make a cameo look on the hit NBC sitcom.
Per an excerpt from his memoir shared by Entertainment Weekly, Perry finally broke up with Roberts as a result of he was afraid she was going to interrupt up with him. “Dating Julia Roberts had been an excessive amount of for me,” he wrote. “I had been consistently sure that she was going to interrupt up with me. Why would she not? I used to be not sufficient; I might by no means be sufficient; I used to be damaged, bent, unlovable. So as a substitute of going through the inevitable agony of dropping her, I broke up with the attractive and good Julia Roberts.”
“Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing” might be launched on Nov. 1.