Almost two months after the shocking passing of Matthew Perry, we finally got an answer to what happened to the iconic Friends actor. Some days ago, co-star Jennifer Aniston revealed she had been texting with him that fateful day and that he had been healthy and happy. The autopsy results published last December, 15, show otherwise.
According to the coroner’s results, the final days of beloved Matthew Perry were grimmer than what Aniston claimed. These coincide with the declarations a close friend of the actor gave to Page Six, where she claims the actor was “angry and mean” the weeks before his tragic passing due to testosterone shots he had been getting.
The autopsy confirmed the testosterone and also determined that the cause of death was a ketamine overdose. The unnamed close friend also revealed that the actor “lied to everyone about being clean. He never was. It is very sad. You know, the biggest lie he told was probably to himself.”
In 2022, Perry published his memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, where he claims he had been sober for over 18 months. He even disclosed he had spent over 9 million dollars to get there saying he went to 6 thousand AA meetings, he went 15 times to rehab, and was in detox 65 times. However, the results prove all this wasn’t that effective.
“He could be quite a manipulative person when it came to his struggles with using, but it was such a struggle, such a battle, and he battled every day to the end,” added the source. The autopsy, as mentioned revealed that Perry passed from the “acute effects of ketamine” and drowning. The amounts of the substance found in his system are similar to those administered to a hospital patient under general anesthetic.
Ketamine is a drug used also as a treatment for depression; Matthew Perry had been receiving it in infusion therapy for that matter although, according to his records, the last time he received a dose was a week and a half before his passing. According to the medical examiner, the ketamine only remains in your system for three to four hours, meaning he took them that same day of his death outside his regular therapy.
Reports also disclose that other factors that contributed to Matthew Perry’s death besides the ketamine and the drowning, were coronary artery disease and the effects of bprenorphine (a drug to treat opioid use). All in all, it was determined that the death was a terrible accident.
