What Matthew Perry’s Relationship With His Mom Suzanne Was Really Like

The son of John Bennett Perry and Suzanne Perry Morrison, Matthew Perry never knew his parents as a married couple. When the actor was less than a year old, his mom and dad divorced, with John moving to Los Angeles to pursue his Hollywood dreams and Suzanne raising Matthew in her native Canada. Suzanne had her own prominent career, serving as the press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (pictured), and Perry remembers having to share his mom with her job.

Today reported a quote from “The Odd Couple” actor’s book, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big, Terrible Thing,” where he revealed his feelings about his mother’s busy career. “I was left to compete with the ongoing concerns of a major Western democracy and its charismatic swordsman leader if I wanted a little attention.”

He also remembers some good times, although they weren’t always as pure as he might have wanted. As noted by Canada’s City News, Perry shared a memory from his childhood when he and his mother watched the movie “Annie Hall.” “That is my absolute favorite childhood memory — sitting with my mom and watching that movie,” Perry wrote in his book. “But now the prime minister of Canada was calling, so I was about to lose my mom again.”