Actor Matt LeBlanc hasn't spoken to his father for three years. But that hasn't stopped LeBlanc snr from dishing the dirt on their relationship, as well as his son's supposed feelings for his Friends co-stars.
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"I haven't talked to Matthew for three years and unless he finds out I'm dying, I can't see that changing," Paul LeBlanc, 73, told RadarOnline.
"It's been long enough. I've given up on him now, I really have."
The pair apparently fell out over money, but Paul accuses his 48-year-old son of being affected by fame.
"I'd rather he was poor and be a human being. I'm obviously proud of what he's achieved, but he has no compassion," he said. "The more money he makes, the more ruthless he gets. He's still my son, but I'm very hurt by what he's done and the type of person he's become."
Paul then took another swipe, saying "Matthew has always been wild and reckless", before adding: "I'm just going to wash my hands with it and get on with my life. If I don't see or talk to him again, then fine."
In the interview, he also spilt on Matt's "real" feelings for his Friends co-stars.
"He got on very good with Jennifer Aniston," Paul said. "He even had a relationship with ... Jen.
"They would make out in the dressing rooms. He told me about it. It was when she was married to Brad Pitt"
Aniston and Matt's LeBlanc's representatives have strongly denied the allegation.
According to his father, Matt also "always liked Lisa Kudrow", but wasn't such a fan of his male co-stars. Matt thought David Schwimmer was "kind of dry, a bit too serious", while his best friend on the show, Matthew Perry, was an "a--hole".
"He wanted to pound on [Perry] a couple of times."
Paul said his son was not like his fun-loving character on the show, Joey Tribbiani, who he played for 10 years from 1994.
"He's not 'Joey' that everybody loves. On TV, he's a loving man, but in reality he's not."
This is all in contrast to the picture painted by Matt LeBlanc, who last year spoke about his co-stars.
"It's corny, but we really were all there for each other emotionally," he told The Telegraph, London. "We had 10 years to sit around in a big studio without windows and talk about our personal lives. I was the Bear, the big-brother figure. I'd always be saying, 'Who said what to you? Do I need to go and beat someone up?' "
He added that the group had not all been together in the same room since the show's final episode, but that they all still got along.
"I see them individually now," he said. "I get together with Lisa. Schwimmer is in town, so I'm going to see him this weekend. I bumped into Jen at a party at Ellen DeGeneres' house the other day. I went to Matthew's birthday last year."
LeBlanc's current TV show Episodes is a comedic melodrama based on his life.
In the show, his father is money hungry and manipulative.
In a separate interview, Matt said the reason he did not speak to his father was because Paul sold stories to tabloids.
"You can learn valuable lessons from unpleasant people, too," Matt told The Times Magazine.
"My dad wasn't around when I was born and I only met him for the first time when I was eight.
"We had a good relationship when I was a kid: he taught me how to ride a motorcycle, how to sail a boat, how to tie knots. Since then, he has sold stories about me to the tabloids. We don't really speak any more."
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