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Julia Roberts remembers her ex-boyfriend, the late “Friends” star Matthew Perry.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the actress reflected on the loss of Perry, who died in October at age 54.
“The sudden death of someone so young is heartbreaking,” Roberts said. “I think, you know, it just helps us all appreciate what we have and continue to move forward positively as best we can.”
The couple dated for about three months in the 1990s, around the time Roberts appeared as a guest star on “Friends.” Perry wrote about their brief romance in his memoir “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.”
“I sent her three dozen red roses and the card said, ‘The only thing more exciting than the prospect of you doing the show is that I finally have an excuse to send you flowers,'” he shared in his book.
The EP “Friends” describes the last conversation with Matthew Perry
Roberts, he wrote, seemed as if she had been “put on this planet to make the world smile, and now especially me.” I grinned like a 15-year-old on his first date.”
Roberts told ET that she had “extremely good thoughts and feelings” about her time on the “Friends” set, playing the role of a former classmate of Perry’s character, Chandler Bing.
Robert’s new film “Leave the World Behind” actually references “Friends.”
Her co-star in the film Mahershala Ali said: “It’s nice that he could be honored in this way, or that the show could happen to be honored in some way at this time,” he told ET.