The American-Canadian actor Matthew Perry will refrain from taking a swipe at Keanu Reeves in the future.

As he let the "Los Angeles Times" know over the weekend, the passages about the "Matrix" actor, which earned him nasty comments when he published his memoirs "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing" last fall, will be deleted in the new edition of the book. Perry had accused Reeves of lack of talent and simple-mindedness.

While "thought leaders" like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger died early, Perry wrote, Reeves is still alive. "I said something stupid about myself. That was mean," the fifty-three-year-old said now.

Perry, who was in front of the camera as Chandler Bing for the series "Friends" from 1994 to 2004, had also surprised readers with drug confessions and failed withdrawal attempts. Why he dealt out several times against Reeves, he kept to himself.