Julia Roberts, 56, broke her silence on ex Matthew Perry‘s loss of life in a brand new interview with Leisure Tonight. The Oscar winner, who briefly dated Matthew for 3 months in 1995 after she visitor starred on Buddies, stated it’s “heartbreaking” that Matthew died so unexpectedly.

“The sudden passing of anyone so younger is heartbreaking,” Julia stated within the interview, revealed December 4. “I believe that, you understand, it simply helps all of us simply admire what we have now and to maintain stepping into a constructive means as finest we will,” she added.

Julia additionally mirrored on her expertise showing on Buddies as a former childhood classmate of Matthew’s character, Chandler Bing. “All good ideas and emotions,” she shared. “They have been all so welcoming to me as only a type of a one-off character and it was a extremely enjoyable time.”

Earlier than his loss of life, Matthew wrote about his relationship with Julia in his 2022 memoir, Buddies, Lovers and the Large Horrible Factor. He stated that they had a “three-month courtship” the place they despatched one another letters through fax. “I used to be so excited that some nights I might discover myself out at some occasion sharing a flirtatious trade with a gorgeous girl and lower the dialog brief so I might race dwelling and see if a brand new fax had arrived,” Matthew wrote.

After three months of relationship, Matthew determined to finish issues with the Fairly Lady star. “Courting Julia Roberts had been an excessive amount of for me,” he wrote in his memoir. “I had been always sure that she was going to interrupt up with me. Why would she not? I used to be not sufficient; I might by no means be sufficient; I used to be damaged, bent, unlovable. So, as an alternative of dealing with the inevitable agony of shedding her, I broke up with the attractive and sensible Julia Roberts.”

Matthew died on the age of 54 on October 28. Since his passing, so many stars have shared tributes to the late actor, together with his former Buddies co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, and Matt LeBlanc.