Matthew Perry has spoken out after using Keanu Reeves’s name in his memoir (Picture: Getty/Shutterstock)

Matthew Perry has issued an apology after being faced with backlash over his rather strange remarks about Keanu Reeves.

The Friends star, who played Chandler Bing on the popular US sitcom, has recently hit headlines with a series of surprising stories after opening up about his life in a new autobiography.

One of those included Perry writing that Reeves ‘still walks among us’ in two passages in his book.

In one extract, the television star reportedly penned: ‘Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?’

In another, Perry wrote about the moment he learnt his friend Chris Farley had died of an overdose in 1988 at age 33.

Perry has penned a memoir, set to come out next month (Picture: Getty)

‘I punched a hole through Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall when I found out,’ he said before adding: ‘Keanu Reeves walks among us.’

Many people were furious by the ‘unnecessary’ comment and scolded Perry on social media.

‘In his new book, Matthew Perry brings up Keanu twice. TWICE. Both times were to say he was upset that someone else had died but Keanu was still alive. How horrible. How absolutely disgusting,’ one blasted.

‘Matthew Perry picking a fight with Keanu Reeves is the likability version of a person thinking they could defeat a grizzly bear,’ another said.

‘What Matthew Perry said about Keanu Reeves is absolutely unnecessary and over the line, what a f*cking d*ck move. I thought Matthew was cooler than that,’ a third added.

Perry has since apologised for using Reeves’s name. ‘I’m actually a big fan of Keanu.

‘I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologise.’

He added to Deadline: ‘I should have used my own name instead.’

Perry’s highly anticipated memoir is set to be released later this year and he touches on some of the lowest moments of his life in candid honesty, including how he has spent at least $9million (£7.9million) to get sober.

Reeves’s name has come up in Perry’s autobiography (Picture: Getty)

Speaking about his book, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, in a recent interview, he also explained that he nearly died just a few years ago and spent two weeks in a coma.

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In 2018, it was reported that he suffered a gastrointestinal perforation, but he has now confirmed that he was hospitalised after his colon burst from opioid misuse, and his chances of survival were alarmingly slim.

‘The doctors told my family that I had a 2% chance to live,’ the 17 Again star told People Magazine. ‘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.’

Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing will be available from November 1.

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Matthew Perry has spoken out.