Matthew Perry revealed that he broke up with Julia Roberts in the ’90s because he felt like he would “never be enough” for her.
The 53-year-old actor got candid about how his own mental turmoil lead to the end of their relationship after just two months in his new memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.”
The “Friends” star says that he and the 54-year-old actress had started dating by the time Roberts had a cameo on an episode of the hit sitcom — but things quickly took a turn for the worse.
“Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me,” Perry wrote in an excerpt published by the Times UK, adding that he felt the “Pretty Woman” star was “slumming it” by dating him.
“Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unlovable. So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts,” he confessed.
The “Whole Nine Yards” actor says he can’t “begin to describe the look of confusion on her face” after he broke things off.
The whirlwind romance blossomed after Roberts, who went onto wed Danny Moder, claimed she would “only do the show” if she got to be a part of Perry’s character’s storyline.
After that, Perry, who played Chandler Bing on the hit show, tried to”woo” the Oscar-winning actress by sending her dozens of roses and sweet messages — including a paper on quantum physics.
