A Fairly Girl and a favourite Good friend! Matthew Perry and Julia Roberts briefly — and secretly! — dated within the mid-‘90s, the actor revealed in his October 2022 memoir, Mates, Lovers and the Large Horrible Factor.
The actors’ short-lived romance started in 1995, when Perry — per Roberts’ ultimatum — satisfied the Sleeping With the Enemy star to seem in a season 2 episode of the NBC hit.
“Julia had been provided the post-Tremendous Bowl episode in season 2 and he or she would solely do the present if she might be in my story line,” the 17 Once more star penned in his memoir, per the U.Okay.’s The Occasions. “Let me say that once more — she would solely do the present if she might be in my story line. (Was I having an excellent 12 months or what?)” he quipped. “However first, I needed to woo her.”
As for the way the Fools Rush In actor persuaded the Oscar winner to take the function in “The One After the Tremendous Bowl,” he needed to invoke some actual mind energy.
After sending Roberts three dozen roses with a observe expressing his pleasure at the opportunity of her guest-starring on the collection, “Her reply was that if I adequately defined quantum physics to her,” she’d conform to be on the present,” Perry wrote. “The next day, I despatched her a paper all about wave-particle duality and the uncertainty precept and entanglement, and solely a few of it was metaphorical.”
Although they have been an merchandise by the point Roberts filmed the fan-favorite Mates episode in 1996, Perry — who obtained candid about his struggles with psychological well being points and substance abuse in his memoir — broke it off shortly after. “Courting Julia Roberts had been an excessive amount of for me. I had been consistently sure that she was going to interrupt up with me,” he wrote in his memoir. “Why would she not? I used to be not sufficient; I might by no means be sufficient; I used to be damaged, bent, unlovable. So as a substitute of dealing with the inevitable agony of shedding her, I broke up with the attractive and sensible Julia Roberts.”
The West Wing alum — who mentioned he grew to become satisfied the Metal Magnolias star had been “slumming it” with him — added, “I can’t start to explain the look of confusion on her face.”
After his cut up from Roberts, Perry went on to this point a number of extra high-profile stars, together with Imply Women actress Lizzy Caplan and Gilmore Women alum Lauren Graham. He obtained engaged to Molly Hurwitz in November 2020, however the two known as it off six months later. “Typically issues simply don’t work out and that is one in all them,” the actor’s rep advised Us Weekly in June 2021. “I want Molly the most effective.”
Roberts, for her half, married Danny Moder in 2002. They welcomed twins Hazel and Phinneaus two years later, adopted by son Henry in 2007.
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