Valerie Bertinelli has revealed that she is “mortified” after Matthew Perry opened up about their makeout session in his new memoir.
The fifty-three-year-old actor shared the details of his “elaborate fantasies” with her in his new memoir, Friends, Lovers and The Big Terrible Thing.
Read on to discover the full story…
Now, we were first introduced to Perry in the Friends gang in 1994.
Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Phoebe, and Joey burst onto our screens in September 1994.
It was an instant hit.
The comedy followed the friends, who live in the same New York apartment block, as they navigated through their mid-twenties.
We got to know the ins and outs of their everyday life…
And in a way, they became our own friends… It’s corny, but it’s true.
The show navigated some serious topics…
Ross and Rachel were not on a break. Period.
There were many iconic moments throughout the show’s ten seasons.
Rachel’s English trifle, Chandler’s nubbin, the time Joey got a Thanksgiving turkey stuck on his head…
The list could go on.
Despite the show coming to an end in 2004, it stands as one of the most-watched shows on Netflix, and its fanbase is as strong as ever.
They all embodied their characters completely.
And none of us can quite see them in anything else.
The gang earned a lot of money during those ten years…
Allegedly, the cast was each on an eye-watering $1 million salary per episode in the later seasons of the show – a history-breaking figure.
Despite everyone’s love for the show, behind the scenes, one of the actors was struggling immensely to stay afloat.
Perry, who played the lovable Chandler Bing, has opened up about struggling with addiction while he was filming the show.
Perry has spilled all in his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which is coming out on November 1.
“I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again,” he told PEOPLE.
“I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober — and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction — to write it all down.
“And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people.”
In his memoir, Perry admits that he almost died at the age of forty-nine after his colon burst from using opioids.
He shared that while he was being treated in hospital, “the doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live.”
“I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. And that’s called a Hail Mary. No one survives that.”
Perry revealed that he first began with an alcohol addiction aged twenty-four while working on Friends, which slowly turned into drug use.
“I could handle it, kind of. But by the time I was thirty-four, I was really entrenched in a lot of trouble,” he admitted.
“But there were years that I was sober during that time. Season 9 was the year that I was sober the whole way through. And guess which season I got nominated for best actor? I was like, ‘That should tell me something.'”
And after being admitted to rehab fifteen times over the years, Perry revealed that he’s sober and feeling a lot healthier.
He has also learned a lot: “It’s important, but if you lose your sobriety, it doesn’t mean you lose all that time and education,” he said.
“Your sober date changes, but that’s all that changes.
“You know everything you knew before, as long as you were able to fight your way back without dying, you learn a lot.”
And while he’s been through a lot over the years, Perry is incredibly grateful to be here to tell his story and help others.
“I’m an extremely grateful guy. I’m grateful to be alive, that’s for sure. And that gives me the possibility to do anything.”
However, not all of the tales from his memoir involve his addiction journey…
One of the more colorful moments from the memoir is when Perry describes his relations with Valerie Bertinelli, as per Page Six…
Bertinelli is best known for her roles in One Day at a Time, as well as Hot in Cleveland.
She is also known for being the ex-wife of the late rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen, who Perry also mentioned.
Perry alleged that Bertinelli’s marriage to Van Halen was “clearly … troubled.”
He went so far as to reveal he had “elaborate fantasies about her leaving Eddie Van Halen and living out the rest of her days” with Perry himself.
Perry wrote that when Van Halen had “enjoyed the fruits of the vine a little too hard” one time, and “passed out not ten feet away,” Perry and Bertinelli had “a long, elaborate makeout session.”
He continued: “I told her I had thought about doing that for a long time, and she had said it right back to me.”
However, the host of Valerie’s Home Cooking then “made no mention of what had happened,” leaving Perry “devastated.”
Bertinelli posted a clip on TikTok after news of the pair’s steamy relations started to spread.
She shared a snippet of herself with Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ playing over it, with the caption: “Anyone else misbehave in their twenties and early thirties? Are you mortified?”
You can watch the TikTok here.
What do you think about the latest revelation from Perry’s memoir?