In his deeply personal memoir “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” actor Matthew Perry recounts the tantalizing courtship he shared with actress Julia Roberts, which ultimately blossomed into a very short-lived romance.
In an excerpt obtained by The Times, Perry recalls that he ended things with “the beautiful and brilliant” actress because he couldn’t handle the enormity of her.
“Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. 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, unlovable. So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts.”
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He sadly wrote, “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.”
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