Over the course of its 10-year run, "Friends" had some great guest appearances. Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt and Reese Witherspoon barely begin to scratch the surface of A-listers who showed up on the popular NBC sitcom, but one of the most memorable guest performances definitely came from Julia Roberts. It turns out, however, that the story of how the "Ticket to Paradise" star came to play the woman who abandoned Chandler naked in the ladies room of a restaurant is just as memorable, and Matthew Perry relays that tale in his upcoming memoir, "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing."

Julia Roberts appeared on the classic Season 2 episode “The One After the Superbowl: Part 2.” She played Susie Underpants, er, Susie Moss, a childhood friend of Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry). She agrees to date him, with the ulterior motive of exacting revenge from 20 years prior, when a fourth-grade Chandler had lifted Susie’s dress up, exposing her underpants to an entire auditorium, thus earning her an unfortunate nickname. Her revenge was well-deserved and well-executed, but the hoops that Perry jumped through to get Roberts there in the first place seem nearly as intense. He writes in the memoir (via an excerpt from The Times U.K..