Matthew Perry opened up about his romantic past in his new memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. The Canadian actor stepped into the spotlight with his role younger brother of Valerie Bertinelli’s title character on the 1990 show Sydney, but it wasn’t until he landed the role of Chandler Bing on Friends in 1994 that he shot to fame.

Did Julia Roberts date Matthew Perry?

Julia Roberts marked Perry’s first high-profile girlfriend, a relationship that began while shooting an episode of Friends. In his memoir, the actor told the story of how Roberts signed up to guest star on the hit sitcom, noting that she was eager to be part of his character’s storyline.

Perry said that he went to New Mexico to ring in 1996 with her and met her family. “I did let her in, both figuratively and literally, and a relationship began,” the actor wrote. “We would already be a couple by the time we started filming the Friends Super Bowl episode.” The two dated for a few months before Perry called it quits, much to Roberts’ surprise.