Matthew Perry Reveals What Led to Break Up With Julia Roberts
Their relationship all started with quantum physics.
In case you don't remember, back in the '90s, Matthew Perry and Julia Roberts had quite a romantic love story.
Unfortunately, it didn't last very long, and now, Perry is opening up about it in his upcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
In an excerpt from the book, Perry revealed what led to the end of his relationship with Roberts. It all started back in 1996 when Perry was desperate to get the Tickets to Paradise star on an episode of Friends.
Roberts was offered to star in the season 2 episode, "The One After the Superbowl, Part 2," but according to Perry, "she would only do the show if she could be in my storyline," the excerpt read via U.K.'s The Times, per Entertainment Weekly.
Perry sent flowers to persuade Roberts, but the actress needed a little more convincing, noting, "her reply was that if I adequately explained quantum physics to her, she'd agree to be on the show." Perry agreed and got straight to work on a paper all about "wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle and entanglement." Phew, what a mouthful!
The pair ended up dating shortly after her guest appearance on the hit sitcom, but Perry ultimately ended up pulling the plug on the relationship due to his own insecurities.
"Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me," he wrote in the excerpt. "I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me. Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unloveable. So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts. She might have considered herself slumming it with a TV guy, and TV guy was now breaking up with her. I can't begin to describe the look of confusion on her face," he said.
Roberts appeared on a season two episode as Susie Moss, a former classmate of Perry's character.
Perry goes into many personal details in the upcoming memoir, touching upon his addiction and near-death experience.
He will sit down for an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer ahead of the book's Nov. 1 release on Friday, Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC.
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