Matthew Perry, the Friends actor, has committed to remove “mean” allusions to Keanu Reeves from future editions of his memoirs.

In his memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Awful Thing, the star, who played Chandler Bing in the US comedy, made numerous references to the celebrity.

On two instances, he inquired as to why Reeves “still walks among us” while “brilliant” performers such as River Phoenix had passed away.

“I said something stupid. Perry said, “It was a mean thing to do.”

“I pulled his name since I live on the same block,” he said during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. I publicly apologized to him.

“Any future editions of the work will not include his name.”

He stated that he had not made reparations in person, but that “if I run across the guy again, I’ll apologize.”

“It was completely dumb,” he added.

Perry’s memoir, which was published last year, detailed his career-long battle with substance misuse and addiction.

In it, he characterizes Phoenix, his co-star in the 1988 film A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon as a genius who was “far ahead” of his time.

“River was a gorgeous man on the inside and out – far too beautiful for this world, as it turned out.” It always seems to be the genuinely talented individuals who fall down.

“How come original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, while Keanu Reeves lives on?”

Phoenix died in 1993, at the age of 23, from a cocaine and heroin overdose. Heath Ledger died in 2008 following an overdose on prescription medicine.

Perry has already apologized for the remark about Reeves, stating he chose his name at random and was a “huge fan.”

“Please accept my apologies. “I should have used my real name instead,” he admitted to People in October.