Matthew Perry claims Cameron Diaz got stoned, hit him 15 years ago during secret date
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Matthew Perry has detailed a secret Hollywood date that went all wrong 15 years ago.
In his new memoir titled Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible Thing, the 53-year-old actor shared that he was in a relationship with Cameron Diaz after she split from Justin Timberlake in 2007.
But when he came face to face with the star – who is now 50 – she got stoned and showed little interest in him before accidentally punching him in the face.
Yaks! Matthew Perry has detailed a secret Hollywood date with Cameron Diaz that went all wrong 15 years ago. In his new memoir titled Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible Thing, the 53-year-old actor shared that she hit him
His dishy tell all: Perry’s book is full of juicy stories from his Hollywood past
DailyMail.com has reached out to Diaz’s representative with a comment.
He begins the story by telling that he’s set up with movie star Diaz — best known for There’s Something About Mary and Charlie’s Angels — for a date, according to PageSix.
It was shortly after she split from pop star Timberlake in 2007. Diaz was single and apparently open to dating.
It wasn’t a one-on-one date with Perry, but rather a group dinner where they got to know each other.
When she entered the room, Perry said she was “immediately stoned.”
Not long after, this ended: It was shortly after she split from pop star Timberlake in 2007. Diaz was single and apparently open to dating
And at dinner, she paid little attention to the Friends actor because she didn’t “seem interested in” [him] not at all,” he said.
Matthew did his best to get her attention by saying “something witty” to her while they were playing Pictionary, he claimed, but it didn’t go well.
He claimed in his book that she tried to punch him in the shoulder, but then she “accidentally” hit his face.
‘Are you kidding me?’ he remembers saying to Cameron.
She continued: Diaz has been married to Benji Madden since 2015. Together they share a daughter named Raddix Madden, who is two years old. Seen in 2016
Diaz has been married to Benji Madden since 2015. Together they share a daughter named Raddix Madden, who is two years old.
Also in his book, he said he broke up with Julia Roberts – who guest-starred on Friends – because she was just too smart and beautiful for him. And he said he was in love with Jennifer Aniston, but she wasn’t interested in him.
And the star also said he had kissed Valerie Bertinelli when her husband Eddie Van Halen passed out.
The actor claimed his crush on Valerie, now 62, became so intense that he made love to her one night after her then-husband Van Halen reportedly passed out. Page six.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Bertinelli representatives for comment.
The actor told Diane Sawyer how important it is to have friends and a social safety net to fight his longstanding struggle with addiction.
His idol: Perry claims he once kissed his Sydney colleague Valerie Bertinelli in his upcoming memoir, according to Page Six; seen in 1990
Perry writes in his memoir that his stint as Valerie’s brother in Sydney became intense as he “fell madly in love with Valerie Bertinelli, who was clearly in a difficult marriage.”
He adds: ‘My crush was crushing; Not only was she way out of my league, but she was married to one of the most famous rock stars in the world, Eddie Van Halen.”
Perry describes how intense his crush on the actress was, which prompted him to plan a future together.
“It’s important to point out that my feelings for Valerie were real. I was totally captivated – I mean, I was obsessed with her and had elaborate fantasies about her leaving Eddie Van Halen and spending the rest of her days with me,” he writes.
In love: Perry ‘fell madly in love with Valerie’ while playing her brother on the series, and he says it seemed like her marriage was ‘difficult’
It eventually escalated when he was invited to Bertinelli and Van Halen’s home, where he “just hung out and stared at Valerie, trying to make her laugh.”
“When you made her laugh, you felt ten feet tall,” he gushes.
But “Eddie had been enjoying the fruits of the vine a little too hard, one more time, and in the end he just passed out, not ten feet from us,” says Perry, adding, “This was my chance!
“If you think I didn’t stand a chance in hell, you’re wrong, dear reader – Valerie and I had a long, elaborate make-out session. It happened—maybe she felt the same as me.’
He claims that Bertinelli even seemed to reciprocate his affection.
“I told her I’d thought long and hard about doing that, and she said it right back,” Perry says.
Failure: But she behaved normally when she went back to work, and the two never spoke of the rendezvous again. He said he was relieved when the show was cancelled; Bertinelli and Van Halen seen in 1990
But when he confessed the night with Bertinelli to fellow player Craig Bierko, Bierko was cautious rather than optimistic and told him to watch out for himself.
As for Bertinelli, she said nothing about what had happened and acted – as she should have been – as if this was a normal day.
“I quickly got the hint and played the part I was supposed to play, but inside I was devastated,” Perry says.
Bertinelli’s professionalism is said to have led to sleepless, tearful nights for the future Friends star, and he saw Sydney’s failure as an escape from the obsession, as he “didn’t need to see Valerie anymore.”
The actor offers a Freudian explanation for his attraction to Bertinelli and other women who could not love him.
“All my life I’ve been attracted to unavailable women. It doesn’t take a psychology degree to figure out that this had anything to do with my relationship with my mother,” he writes.
Freudian: ‘All my life I’ve been attracted to unattainable women. It doesn’t take a psychology degree to figure out that this had anything to do with my relationship with my mother,” he writes.
It takes a village: In an excerpt from his interview with Diane Sawyer, Perry says ‘addiction is way too bad to beat alone’
The last excerpt from his book comes ahead of Perry’s interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC News, in which he describes the importance of a support system to fight addiction.
Sawyer notes in the latest clip that Perry “sends postcards from hell to everyone who needs it.”
She says the actor, who was in a coma for weeks after his colon ruptured as a result of his opioid use, had “600 AA meetings,” along with “30 years” of therapy and 15 stints in rehab.
Addiction is far too terrible to beat alone, but together we can beat it day by day,” Sawyer reads from his memoir.
“Your illness is just outside, just doing one-armed pushups, just waiting for you, waiting to get you alone. Because alone you lose from the disease’, warns Perry.