Matthew Perry and Keith Morrison wouldn't meet until a decade after Matthew was born. Matthew's parents, famous actor John Bennett Perry and Suzanne Morrison, welcomed him to the world in 1969. However, things didn't work out in the marriage. The couple would split shortly before Matthew reached the age of one. He continued to live with his mother after his parents' divorce. Keith would be introduced to their family in 1981 when he and Suzanne officially tied the knot.

The new family was a match made in heaven. In fact, Matthew has credited his stepfather as the glue that held his family together over the years. In his memoir "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing," Matthew put together a thoughtful section about his stepfather, describing how he perfectly fit into his and his mother's lives. "Keith lived for my mother. The only thing that is annoying about Keith is that he always takes my mother's side. He is her protector," he wrote. He declared that Keith was prone to taking Suzanne's side whenever she had a disagreement with her son, and then Keith would later claim the disagreement never took place.

"Some would call this gaslighting, others would call it gaslighting — it's gaslighting," the "Friends" star stated, injecting a bit of his typical offbeat humor. "But my family was held together by one man, and that was Keith Morrison."