Matthew Perry is letting all is skeletons out of the closet after promoting his new memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing”.
Perry’s latest confession involves Valerie Bertinelli and how he had a steamy takeout session with her while her husband Eddie Van Halen was passed out drunk beside them.
Perry played Bertinelli’s brother in the short-lived 1990 sitcom ‘Sydney’, in which she was a private eye detective.
“I fell madly in love with Valerie Bertinelli, who was clearly in a troubled marriage,” Perry writes. “My crush was crushing on me! Not only was she way out of my league, but she was also married to one of the most famous rock stars on the planet, Eddie Van Halen.”
And while it was, at least at first, a one-sided thing, Perry adds, “It is important to point out here that my feelings for Valerie were real. I was completely captivated. I mean, I was obsessed with her and harbored elaborate fantasies about her leaving Eddie Van Halen and living out the rest of her days with me.”
“Things finally came to a head one night. I was over at Valerie and Eddie’s house, just hanging out and gazing at Valerie, trying to make her laugh. When you made her laugh, you felt ten feet tall. As the night progressed, it was clear that Eddie had enjoyed the fruits of the vine a little too hard, one more time, and eventually he just passed out, not ten feet away from us,” Perry writes. “This was my chance! If you think I didn’t actually have a chance in hell you’d be wrong, dear reader, Valerie and I had a long, elaborate make-out session. It was happening, maybe she felt the same way I did.”
Perry claims he got the nerve up to confess his feelings for Valerie and told her he had thought about doing that with her for a long time. She apparently, had felt the same, according to Perry.
The next day, he told his “Sydney” co-star and friend Craig Bierko about the make-out session, and Bierko told Perry to be careful.
Bertinelli, meanwhile, “made no mention of what had happened and was behaving, as she should have been, like this was just a normal day.
“I quickly got the hint and also played the role I was supposed to, but inside I was devastated,” Perry confessed on his hurt emotions.
Perry writes how he had many tearful nights over Valerie’s rejection of him. However, his pain was short lived as the show was cancelled and the two went their separate ways and didn’t meet again.
Perry adds that his heartbreak stemmed from his issues with his own mother Suzanne.
“I have spent my life being attracted to unavailable women. It doesn’t take a psychology degree to figure out that this had something to do with my relationship with my mother,” Perry confessed.
