Iconic headliner of Hollywood cinema for many years now, Julia Roberts recently lost one of her former companions. Indeed, the star of Pretty Woman shared the life of Matthew Perry, who is died at the age of 54 October 28, 2023. Until now, the 56-year-old actress had not yet spoken publicly on this subject. “The sudden loss of someone so young is heartbreaking,” she replied to Entertainment Tonight, Sunday December 3, 2023, questioned about the disappearance of the former star of Friends. “I think…it makes us realize that we need to appreciate more what we haveand continue to be positive as much as we can”, she also added. For the record, Julia Roberts played a character in Friends for one episode, in 1996. Asked about her time on the famous sitcom, she said she didn’t remember any “only good memories”. “They were all so welcoming. It was a lot of fun.”she also clarified.
Matthew Perry and Julia Robert: their relationship only lasted a few months
Highly publicized at the time, the romance between Matthew Perry and Julia Roberts ultimately did not last very long. Indeed, the late actor revealed in his Memoirs, published in 2022, that he ended their relationship after just three months. “Dating Julia Roberts was too much for me. I always felt like she was going to break up with me. I couldn’t be enough. I was broken, I couldn’t love. Instead of facing my fear of losing her one day, I preferred to break up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts”he wrote in his book, entitled Friends, my loves and this terrible thing. For the record, Matthew Perry was buried on November 3, 2023 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, located near the studios where he filmed all the episodes of Friends for ten years. In the past, the former companion of Julia Roberts, who experienced drug addiction problems, had already almost died in 2018. That year, he had suffered a gastrointestinal perforation, resulting from a overconsumption of opioids.