Matthew Perry talks about his crush on Jennifer Aniston and the wind she gave him

Since Matthew Perry started promoting Friends, my loves and this terrible thing, his autobiography, he mainly focused on the “terrible thing” at the center of his story, that is to say his relentless fight against addictions. And while the book arrived on the shelves across the Atlantic a few days before France, we can now look into the romantic setbacks of the star of Friendsand especially his huge crush for Jennifer Aniston!

“I was immediately interested in her (how could it have been otherwise?), and I had a feeling it was mutual – maybe there was going to be something,” reveals the actor in an excerpt published by Digital Spy, while he had met his future colleague three years before the start of the shooting of Friends.

Unfortunately for him, Jennifer Aniston was not as “interested” as he had thought… “At the time I had landed two jobs in the same day – there was Haywirea show like America’s Funniest Home Videos, and a sitcom,” Matthew Perry recalled. “So I called Jennifer and said, ‘You’re the first person I wanted to tell!’ »

Confidences expected on November 10 in France

And that’s when the actor… took a big wind! “In hindsight, it was clear that she thought I liked her way too much or in the wrong way…and I just compounded my first mistake by asking her out,” he continues in his book. . “She declined, but said she’d like to be friends with me, and I compounded the aggravation by blurting out, ‘We can’t be friends!’ »

But as everyone knows, Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston will eventually become friends several years later. In any case, if you liked this little taste of Matthew Perry’s confidences, know that his autobiography will be published in French on November 10 by Michel Lafon.