How Matthew Perry Described Former Flame Natasha Gregson Wagner In His Bombshell Memoir

Matthew Perry and Natasha Gregson Wagner didn’t stay together as a couple, though they did stay friends. And she reached out to him in the years after they split up to tell him that she’d had a baby — Gregson Wagner’s first baby with fellow actor Barry Watson was born in June 2012. Hearing about Gregson Wagner’s new baby had an overwhelming impact on Perry. He wrote in “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” that after hearing from Gregson Wagner, he pulled over and watched the ocean and cried, thinking, “She could have had that child with me.”

It doesn’t sound as though Perry specifically wanted to have a baby with Gregson Wagner, like a “one that got away” situation. Instead, it seemed more like a realization of needing to figure out what he wanted from his life and how he could get it, “Natasha’s life was blooming while mine was turning into one huge mistake,” Perry wrote.