Matthew Perry Made Out With Valerie Bertinelli Right Next to Eddie Van Halen (Who Was Passed Out at the Time) - Rolling Stone

Matthew Perry’s upcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, has already garnered a batch of pre-publication property for the harrowing tales Perry shares astir his struggle with addiction and a near-death acquisition successful 2018. But the publication besides boasts immoderate juicy Hollywood anecdotes — similar the clip Perry made retired with Valerie Bertinelli successful beforehand of her then-husband Eddie Van Halen (though it doesn’t look similar helium was, uh, conscious capable to spot it).

Four years earlier helium was formed connected Friends, Perry starred alongside Bertinelli connected the short-lived sitcom Sydney (Bertinelli played the titular backstage eye, portion Perry played her over-protective bull brother). Like truthful galore successful that era, Perry was head-over-heels for Bertinelli, tending to a dense crush for idiosyncratic helium admits was not lone “way retired of my league” but besides “married to 1 of the astir celebrated stone stars connected the planet, Eddie Van Halen.”

Perry insists his feelings for Bertinelli were truthful existent that helium “harbored elaborate fantasies astir her leaving Eddie Van Halen and surviving retired the remainder of her days with me.” That, obviously, didn’t happen, but Perry says helium got arsenic adjacent arsenic helium could 1 nighttime portion hanging astatine Bertinelli and Van Halen’s place.

“As the nighttime progressed, it was wide that Eddie had enjoyed the fruits of the vine a small excessively hard, 1 much time, and yet helium conscionable passed out, not 10 feet distant from us, but still,” Perry writes. “This was my chance! If you deliberation I didn’t really person a accidental successful hell, you’d beryllium wrong, beloved scholar — Valerie and I had a long, elaborate make-out session… I told her I had thought astir doing that for a agelong time, and she had said it close backmost to me.” (A rep for Bertinelli did not instantly instrumentality Rolling Stone’s petition for comment.)

The thrill, however, was rapidly gone. Perry says Bertinelli “made nary mention” of the make-out the adjacent time and was “behaving — arsenic she should person been — similar this was conscionable a mean day.” While Perry says helium “got the hint,” helium was “devastated” wrong and endured “many a tearful night” afterward. Relief yet came erstwhile Sydney was canceled, and helium nary longer had to spot Bertinelli. 

To enactment the cleanable bow connected this anecdote, Perry brought successful a spot of Sigmund Freud, tying his unrequited crush to his issues with — you guessed it — his mother. “I person spent my beingness being attracted to unavailable women,” Perry writes. “It doesn’t instrumentality a science grade to fig retired that this had thing to bash with my narration with my mother.”

Bertinelli seemingly addressed the incidental (with assistance from Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero”) successful a TikTok that she captioned “Anyone misbehave successful their 20’s and aboriginal 30’s? Are you motified?”