Matthew Perry has opened up about his romance with Hollywood star Julia Roberts and revealed why their relationship came to a heartbreaking end.
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In his new autobiography, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, the Friends star revealed that their brief romance came about after Julia was approached for a guest role in season two's post-Super Bowl episode.
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In an attempt to sweet talk the actress, the 53-year-old explained how he sent the brunette beauty three dozen red roses along with a card that read: "The only thing more exciting than the prospect of you doing the show is that I finally have an excuse to send you flowers."
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The tactic worked. Julia agreed to do the show and in return, sent Matthew an endless supply of bagels.
Touching on how their three-month-long courtship came about, Matthew explained how the smitten couple eagerly sent each other daily faxes.
© Photo: Getty ImagesMatthew and Julia dated for six months
"Three or four times a day I would sit by my fax machine and watch the piece of paper slowly revealing her next missive. I was so excited that some nights I would find myself out at some party sharing a flirtatious exchange with an attractive woman and cut the conversation short so I could race home and see if a new fax had arrived.
"I was grinning like some 15-year-old on his first date," he said.
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Matthew added: "After that we could not be stopped: five-hour conversations here, four-hour conversations there. We were falling; I wasn't sure into what, but we were falling… I did let her in, both figuratively and literally, and a relationship began. We would already be a couple by the time we started filming the Friends Super Bowl episode."
© Photo: Getty ImagesThe actor is best known for his role as Chandler Bing
After a whirlwind romance, the American-Canadian actor nonetheless called off the relationship because he deemed himself "unlovable".
Recalling the painful memory, Matthew said: "Two months later, I was single. Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me. Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unlovable.
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© Photo: Getty ImagesMatthew ended the romance
"So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts. She might have considered herself slumming it with a TV guy, and TV guy was now breaking up with her. I can't begin to describe the look of confusion on her face."
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